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AUTHOR'S  experience. 

THE 

SUPPLEMENT  and  APPENDIX. 


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OJing  unto  the  LORD  a  new  Song;  for  he  v\ 
hath  done  marvellous  things.- — His  {j\ 
right  Hand  and  his  holy  Ann  hath  gotten  M 
him  the  Vifiory.     Pialra  xcviii.  i.  V) 

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O    Printed  and  Sold  by  S.  Kollock.  1700.    v\ 


THE   FIFTEENTH   EDITION. 


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ADVERTISEMENT. 

THIS  book  of  Hymns  fo  exaclly  defcribes 
of  the  late  Mr.  Hart,  that  it  may 
!  them,  he  being  dead,  yet  fpeahtk. 
Herein  the  doctrines  of  the  gofpel  are  illuflrated  fo  ( 
■p-rafti  •  i  !y,  the  precepts  of  the  txtord  enforced  fo  e- 
vdngelically,  and  their  effecls  fated  fo  experiment" 
propriety  it  may  be  filed,  "  A  trea- 
"  futy  of  floftrinal,  pta&ical,  and  experimental 
M  '."uiftianity." — And  though  it  he  confeffed*  t 
it  is  peculiarly  adapted'to  circuit: [lances  of  tempta- 
tion and  difirefs  ;  yet  it  nviJI  recommend  itfelf 'to s 
t    riflriam  in  ■  meral,  dtflinguifhetd  by 
in     e  following  concife  characler:  That  hep  the 
j  -  f  Chrijl,  and  the  commands  of  God, 

re  Hymns  have  already  gone  through  fveralt 
and  fome  of  theni  large  editions.     They  have  like- 

been  espied  into  various  cofleeTrons,  pub. 
by  different  per  fans  ;  of  whom  it  is  requeflcd  . 
they  nvould  affix  the  author* s  name  to  : 

as  it  nvould  be  a  means  qffprcddir.g  a 
valuable  performance. 


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TO  THB 

READER, 


f^T  the  fecond  edition  of  my  Hymns,  the  preface 
was  omitted  for  feveral  reaions:    I  he  chief  of 
which  were  thele : 

I  thought  the  account  of  my  experience  was 
fufnciently  publiihed  and  difperfed  in  the  fird  e- 
cuion;  and  therefore  there  needed  no  repetition 
of  it,  efpeciallv  as  the  book  was  now  more  adap- 
ted (by  the  addition  of  the  fupplement)  to  pubLc 
worfhip?  where  narratives  of  any  kind  are  not  very 
ueceffary  :  Nor  was  I  without  apprehenfion  that 
fome  ill  ufe  might  be  made  of  it,  as  there  are  fev- 
ers] pafTages  in  it  that  may  not  (bit  the  condition 
of  many  Chriftians.  It  was  therefore  to  be  feared 
that  fome  foolifh.  men  might  take  liberty  from  it 
to  turn  the  grace  of  God  into  lafcivioufnefs;  and 
that  what  was  deiigned  to  difplay  the  infinite  mer- 
cy of  God  to  his  children,  might  be  made,  by  the 
tempter's  craft,  an  occaiion  of  falling. 

But  the  earneft  and  repeated  enquiries  that  were 
made  after  the  preface,  and  the  longing  defire 
fome  expreffed  for  it,  and  ( what  was  above  ail )  the 
feveral  accounts  I  received  from  ferious  Chriftians, 
to  whom  it  had  been  much  bleffed9  did  at  lad  (as 
fo  many  calls  of  Providence,  which  I  was  unwill- 
ing to  refill)  prevail  upon  me  to  reprint  in  the 
third  edition;  and  for  the  fame  reafoas  it  was 
judged  proper  to  continue  it. 


To  the  READER. 

J  befeech  Almighty  God  to  make  it  further  ufe- 
fui  to  his  children,  in  making  them  fee  by  it  the 
riches  of  his  free  grace  to  the  worft  of  men ;  for 
which  intent  it  was  written.  And  let  thofe  who 
may  be  tempted  thereby  to  tempt  God,  or  to  back- 
jQide,  in  hopes  of  being  fomiraculoufly  reclaimedf 
confider  that  the  repentance  to  falvation  given  me 
may  not  be  given  to  them.  I  charge  them  there- 
fore* in  the  name  of  God,  to  beware  of  any  fuch 
diabolical  delufion;  for  they  who  fay,  let  us  fin 
that  grace  may  abound;  thtir  damnation  is  juft.— 
And  the  damnation  which  men  incur  by  a  pre- 
fumptuous  wilful  abofe  and  contempt  of  the  gos- 
pel, is  worfe  than  that  of  Sodom  and  Gomorrah. 
For  our  Cod  is  a  confuming  fire. 


PREFACE 

TO  THE  FIRST    EDITION 


"■■ 


THE  following  Hymns  were  compofed  partly 
from  feveral  paffages  of  fcripture  laid  on  my 
heart,  or  opened  to  my  understanding,  from  time 
to  time,  by  the  Spirit  of  God,  or  elie  hinted  to  me 
by  other  Chriftians ;  (of  which  latter  there  are  in- 
deed but  very  few)  partly  from  impreflions  felt  un- 
der different  frames  of  fpirit  at  the  times  when  they 
were  refpectively  written;  and  partly  frcm  fpon- 
taneous  impulfes,  or  ferious  reikclions  on  fuch  fub- 
jecls  as  acckiently  occurred  to  my  mind.  There 
are  alfopaflages  interfperfed  here  and  there?  that 
were  written  many  years  ago  on  various  occafions, 
and  now  thought  worthy,  after  a  long  fuppreffion, 
of  being  revived  and  brought  to  light  |  but  thefe 
likewife  are  very  few. 

They  were  begun  alrnoft  two  years  ago;  but 
have  been  greatly  impeded,  and  often  interrupted 
by  diforder  and  darknefs  of  ibul,  ai$ic"tions  and 
temptations  of  various  kinds,  and  other  hindran- 
ces. They  are  publifhed  not  only  in  the  fame 
order,  but  almoft  in  the  fame  manner  in  which  thejy 
were  firft  written :  For  though  they  have  fince  un- 
dergone a  curfory  revifal,  and  have  been  lightly 
retouched,  the  alterations  I  have  made  in  them  are 
neither  very  numerous  nor  material. 

1  defire  wholly  to  fubmit  them,  with  myfelf,  to 
the  ali-wife  difpofal  of  that  God,  the  fweet  euiiv- 


ii  PREFACE. 

ening  influences  of  whofe  bleffed  Spirit!  often  felt 
while  they  were  compoflng.  All  I  wruld  humblf 
wi(h  is,  that  Jefus  of  Nazareth,  the  mighty  God, 
the  friend  of  finners,  would  be  pleafed  to  mak& 
them,  in  fome  meafure,  (weak  and  mean  as  they 
are)  inftrumental  in  fetting  forth  his  glory,  propa- 
gating and  enforcing  the  truths  of  his  gofpei, 
cheering  the  hearts  of  his  people,  and  exalting  his 
ineftimable  righteoufnefs,  upon  which  alone  the 
unworthy  author  defires  to  reft  the  whole  of  his 
falration. 

Though  the  rich  difplays  of  God's  free  fove- 
reign  grace*  and  electing  love  to  me  the  chief  of 
finners  m:iy  be  feen,  by  an  enlightened  eye,  in  fe- 
i  parts  of  the  compositions;  and  though  one 
of  them  in  particular  (No  XXVII.  page  36.  en- 
titled. The  Author's  own  Confejjion)  be  written 
profefLdly  with  that  view;  I  (had  neverthelefs  lay 
hold  on  the  prefent  occafion  to  make  my  public 
acknowledgement  of  God's  unmerited  mercy  to 
me,  by  giving  a  brief  and  fiimmary  account  of  the 
great  things  he  hath  done  for  my  foul:  I  fay.  a 
brief  and  fummary  account;  for  a  minute  and  cir- 
cum  Manual  detail  of  them  would  more  than  fill  aa 
ample  volume. 


PREFACE. 


AS  I  had  thehappinefs  of  being  born  of  believ- 
ing parents,  i  imbibed  the  found  dc-itrines  cf 
the  go&>ii  from  my  infancy;  nor  was  I  without 
touches  cf  heart,  shecks  of  conference,  and  melt- 
ings of  afFeclions  by  the  fecret  drivings  of  God's 
Spirit  with  me  while  very  young:  But  theimpref- 
lions  were  not  deep,  nor  the  influences  tailing,  be- 
ing frequently  defaced  and  quenched  by  the  vani- 
ties and  vices  of  childhood  and  youth. 

About  the  twenty-mil  year  of  my  age.  T  began 
to  be  under  great  anxiety  coneerning  my  foul. — 
The  fpirit  of  bondage  diftrefied  me  fore;  though 
I  endeavored  (as  I  believe  moil  under  legal  con- 
victions do)  to  commend  rayfelf  to  God's  favor, 
by  amendment  of  life,  virtuous  refolutions,  moral 
reclkude,  and  a  flridr.  attendance  on  religious  ordi- 
nances. I  ftrove  to  fubduemy  flefh  by  failing,  and 
other  rigorous  acts  of  penance  and  mortification; 
and  whenever  I  was  captivated  by  its  lulls  (which 
indeed  was  often  the  cale)  I  endeavoured  to  recon- 
cile myfelf  again  to  God  by  forrow  for  my  faults; 
which,  if  attended  with  tears,  I  hoped  would  pafs 
as  current  coin  with  heaven;  and  then  I  judged 
myfelf  whole  again,  and  to  ftand  on  equal  terms 
with  my  foes,  till  the  nest  fall ;  which  generally 
fucceeded  in  amort  time. 

In  this  uneafy  reftlefs  round  of  finning  and  re- 
penting, working  and  reading,  I  went  on  for  a- 
iove  fevea  years  j  when  a  great  domefiic  afflidio* 


iv  PREFACE. 

befalling  me,  (in  which  I  was  a  moderate  fi.ffercr, 
but  a  monftroas  fnner)  I  began  to  fink  deeper  and 
deeper  into  convi&ion  or  my  nature's  evil,  the  deceit- 
fulnefs  and  hardnefs  of  my  heart,  the  wickednefs  of 
my  life,  the  fhalio  wnefs  of  my  chriftianity,  and  the 
blindntisof  my  devotion.  I  fawthat  I  was  in  a  dan- 
gerous ftate.  and  that  1  muft  have  a  better  religion 
than  I  had  yet  experienced,  before  I  could  wirh, 
with  any  propriety,  call  myfelf  a  Chriftian.  HqW 
did  I  now  long  to  feel  the  merits  of  Chrift  applied 
to  my  foul  by  the  Holy  Spirit!  How  often  did  I 
make  my  ftrongeft  efforts  to  call  God  my  G$d!—* 
But,  alas!  I  could  no  more  do  this,  than  I  could 
raife  the  dead.  I  found  now,  by  woiul  experience, 
that  faith  was  not  in  my  power;  and  the  queftion 
with  me  now  was,  not  whether  I  would  be  a  Chris- 
tian or  no,  but  whether  I  might;  not  whether  I 
fhould  repent  and  believe,  but  whether  God  would 
give  me  true  repentance  and  a  living  faith. 

After  fome  weeks  pafTed  in  this  gloomy,  dread- 
ful ftate,  the  Lord  was  pleafed  to  comfort  me  a 
little,  by  enabling  me  to  appropriate,  in  fome  mea- 
sure, the  merits  of  the  Saviour  to  my  own  foul.-— 
This  comfit  increafed  for  fome  time;  and  my 
underftanding  was  alfo  wonderfully  illuminated  in 
reading  the  holy  fcriptures ;  fo  that  I  could  fee 
Chrift  in  many  paiTa^es,  where  before  I  little  ima- 
gined to  find  him ;  and  was  encouraged  to  hope  I 
had  an  intereft  in  his  merits,  and  the  benefits  by 
him  procured  to  his  people. 

In  this  bkiTed  ftate  my  continuance  was  but  (hort 
—for,  milling  impetuoufly  into  notions  beyond 
my  experience,  1  hafted  to  make  myfelf  a  Chris- 
tian by  mere  doctrine,  adopting  other  mens' opin- 
ions before  i  had  tried  them;  and  let  up  for  a  great 


PREFACE.  V 

Jight  in  religion,  difregarding  the  interna!  woik  of 
grace  be^un  in  my  foul  by  the  Holy  Ghoft.  This 
liberty,  affumed  by  rayfelf,  and  not  given  by  Chrift, 
Toon  grew  to  libertinifm,  in  which  I  took  large 
progreffiye  ft  rides,  and  advanced^  to  a  dreadful 
height,  both  in  principle  and  practice.  In  a  word, 
I  ran  fuch  dangerous  lengths  both  of  carnal  and 
fpiritual  wickednefs,  that  i  even  out-went  profefs- 
cd  infidels,  and  (hocked  the  irreligious  and  profane 
with  my  horrid  blafphemies,  and  monftrous  im- 
pieties. Hardnefs  of  heart  was,  with  me,  a  iign  of 
good  confidence ;  careluTnefs  went  for  trull,  *niD- 
ty  notions  for  great  faith,  a  feared  confeience  for 
aiTurance  of  faith,  and  rain  prefumpti  en  for  Chris- 
tian  courage. 

My  actions  were,  in  a  great  meafure,  conform- 
able to  my  notions:  For  having  (as  1  imagined) 
obtained  by  Chrift  a  liberty  of  finning,  I  was  re- 
folved  to  make  ufeof  it,  and  thought  the  more  I 
could  fin  without  remorfe,  the  greater  hero  I  was 
in  faith.  A  tender  confeience  I  deemed  weaknefs; 
prayer  I  left  for  novices  and  bigots;  and  a  broken 
and  contrite  heart  was  a  thing  too  low  and  legal 
for  me  to  approve,  much  more  to  dejtre.  Not  to 
dwell  on  particulars,  I  mall  only  fay  (what,  tho' 
{hocking  to  hear,  is  too  true!)  that  I  committed  all 
unckannefs  with  greedinefs. 

In  this  abominable  ftate  I  continued,  a  loofe 
backUider,  an  audacious  apoftate,  a  bold-faced  ref 
bel,  for  nine  or  ten  years?  not  only  committing 
acts  of  lewdnefs  myfelf,  but  infecting  others  with 
the  poifon  of  my  delufions.  1  publjfhed  feveral  pie- 
ces on  different  fubjects,  chiefly  translations  of  the 
ancient  heathens,  to  which  I  prefixed  prefaces,  and 
ajad  fubjoifled  notes  of  a  pemicipus  tendency,  an4 

A » 


vi  PREFACE. 

indulged  a  freedom  of  thought  far  unbecoming  a 
Chriftian. 

But  God,  who  is  rich  in  mercy,  and  whofe  grace 
is,  like  himfelf,  almighty,  did  not  altogether  give 
me  up  to  hardneis  and  impenitence:  I  felt,  from 
time  to  time,  meltings  of  heart  and  inward  com- 
punction; and  had  a  facred  hope  at  the  bottom, 
(whick  often  rofe  above  my  grofs  corruptions) 
that  I  ihould  not  always  go  on  in  this  abandoned 
manner,  and  run  as  reprobate  to  linal  perdition. 

About  feven  or  eight  years  ago,  I  began  by  de- 
grees to  reform  a  litt  e,  and  to  live  in  a  more  fo* 
ber  and  orderly  manner.  And  now  as  I  retained 
the  form  of  found  words,  and  held  the  doctrines 
of  free-grace,  juftification  by  faith,  and  other  or- 
thodox tenets,  I  was  tolerably  confident  of  the 
goodnefs  of  my  flate;  efpecially  as  I  could  now 
alfo  add  that  other  requisite,  a  moral  behavior.— 
Surely  thought  I,  though  I  have  been  fo  profligate 
and  profane,  yet  as  I  am  now  reclaimed,  and  an 
not  only  found  in  principles,  but  fober  and  honeft 
in  practice,  I  cannot  but  be  in  the  right  way  to  the 
favor  of  God. 

For  feveral  years  I  went  on  in  this  eafy,  cool, 
fmooth,  and  indolent  manner,  with  a  lukewarm 
infipid  kind  of  religion,  yet  not  without  fome  fe- 
cret  whifpers  of  God's  love,  and  vifitations  of  his 
grace,  and  now  and  then  warm  addrcfks  to  him 
in  private  prayer.  But,  alas!  all  this  while  my 
heart  was  whole;  the  fountains  of  the  great  deeps 
of  my  (inful  nature  were  not  broken  up.  I  was, 
therefore,  confcious  that  the  written  word  of  God 
was  againft  me,  efpecially  thofe  parts  of  it,  that 
represent  the  children  of  God  as  a  poor,  afflicted, 
mourning,  broken-hearted  people  j  of  which  cha- 


?  R  E  F  A  C  8.  v 

rafteri&le  I  was  deftitute:  Nor  was  the  blood  of 
Chrift  effectually  applied  to  my  foul.  I  looked  on 
his  death  indeed  as  the  grand  iacrince  for  fin ;  and 
always  thought  on  him  with  i  efpect  and  reverence, 
but  did  not  fee  the  ineftimable  value  of  his  blood 
and  righteouihefs  clearly  enough  to  make  me  ab- 
hor myfelf,  and  count  all  things  elfe  but  dung  and 
drofs.  On  the  contrary,  when  I  ufed  to  read  the 
fcriptures  (which  I  nowdidconftantiy.  both  in  En- 
glifti  and  the  original  languages  )tho*  my  mi  ad  was 
often  affected,  and  my  undemanding  illuminated 
by  many  paiTages  that  treated  of  the  Saviour;  yet 
I  was  fo  far  from  feeing,  or  owning  that  there  was 
luch  a  neceflity  for  his  death,  and  that  it  could  be 
of  fuch  infinite  value  as  is  reprefented,  that  I  have 
often  refoived  (O  the  horiible  depth  of  man's  fall, 
andthedefperate  wickednefs  of  the  human  heart! ) 
that  I  never  would  believe  it;  and  have  been  temp- 
ted to  tell  God  himfelf,  that  he  could  not  make 
nie,  without  injuring  my  reafon,  and  impofingon 
my  underftanding,  by  downright  violence  and  per- 
verlive  power. 

About  three  or  four  years  ago,  I  fell  into  a  deep 
defpondency  of  mind,  becaufe  I  had  never  expe- 
rienced grand  revelations  and  miraculous  difco- 
veries,  I  was  very  melancholy,  and  fhunned  all 
company,  walking  oenfively  alone,  or  fitting  in  pri- 
.  vate,  and'  bewailing  my  iad  and  dark  condition,  not 
havings  friend  in  the  world,  to  whom  I  could  com- 
municate the  burden  of  my  foul,  which  was  fo  hea- 
*y,  that  I  fometimes  heutated  even  to  take  my  ne- 
Ceflary  food.  But  after  many  a  gloomy  doleful 
hour  fpent  in  folitude  and  forrow,  not  without 
ftrong  and  frequent  cries  and  tears  to  God,  and 
befi     *iog  him  to  rereal  himfelf  to  me  in  a  clearer 


fiii  F  R  E  F  A  C  5. 

manner,  T  thought  he  a/ked  me,  in  the  miJft  of 
one  of  my  prayers;  Whether  f  rather  ehoie  the 
vifbnary  revelations  of  which  I  had  formed  fome 
v/ild  idea,  or  to  be  content  with  truiting  to  the 
low  defpifed  myfteryoFa  crucified  maa?  I  was 
enabled  to  prefer  the  latter;  and  felt  great  com- 
fort in  expecting  the  ruture  effcifts  of  my  choice. 

But  gloom  of  mind,  and  dejection  of  ipirit,  ilill 
frequently  overwhelmed  me;  from  which  I  ufed 
to  be  relieved,  by  pouring  out  my  foal  to  Chrift, 
and  befeeching  him,  with  cries,  and  groans,  and 
tears,  to  reveal  himfelfto  me,  praying,  at  the  fame 
time,  it  might  be  done  without  pain ;  for  I  was  io 
much  a  coward,  thar  I  preferred  eafe  to  every  other 
confideration.  I  was  often  anfwered  by  fuch  por- 
tions of  fcriptute  as  thefe:  Beheld  I  come  quickly* 
and  my  rewnrd  is  with  me:  That  which  thou  haji 
already i  hold  fajl  till  1 come.  To  the  latter  of 
thefe,  f  clofed  my  hands  faft,  and  cried,  I  would 
fooner  part  with  every  drop  of  blood  than  let  go 
the  hopes  I  already  had  in  a  crucified  Saviour:— 
And  to  the  former,  I  ufed  to  reply,  (after  confide 
ering  the  words,  My.  reward  is  with  me:)  "  Come* 
M  Lord  Jefus,  come  quickly."  For  tho;  I  expecl- 
ed  fome  (ore  vifitation;  yet,  believing  that  Chrift 
would  bring  ftrength  and  power  with  him,  I  wait- 
ed, and  longed  for  his  coming. 

The  week  before  Eafter,  1757,  T  had  fuch  ana- 
mazing  view  of  the  agony  of  Chrirt  in  the  garden, 
as  I  know  not  well  how  to  defcribe.  \  was  loft  in 
wonder  and  adoration  ;  and  the  impreflion  it  made 
was  too  deep,  J  believe,  ever  to  be  obliterated — I 
(tall  fav  no  more  of  this,  bu'  only  remark,  that, 
notvvithflanding  all  that  is  talked  about  thefuffer- 
ings  of  Jefus,  none  can  know  any  thing  of  them, 


PREFACE.  is 

but  by  the  HolyGhoft;  and,  I  believe,  he  that 
knows  moft,  knows  but  very  little.  It  was  upon 
this  I  made  the  firft  part  of  Hymn  I.  On  the  Pas- 
Jton:  which,  howeyer,  I  afterwards  mutilated  and 
altered. 

I  ufed  to  be  often  terribly  cut  down  with  thofe 
words :  An d  cajl  ve  the  unprofitable  fervant  into 
cuter  darknefs  :  There  Jball  be  weeping  and  gnajh- 
ing  of  teeth.  Matth.  xxv.  30.  Which  fometimes 
funk  me  almoft  to  utter  defpair;  and  then  again  I 
ufed  to  receive  fome  comfort.  At  length  defpair 
began  to  make  dreadful  head  againft  me;  hopes 
grew  fainter,  and  terrors  ftror-ger:  which  latter 
were  increafed  by  a  faithful  letter  I  received  from 
a  friend,  who  had  alio  run  great  lengths  of  impie- 
ty with  me  formerly,  bur  was  now  reclaimed.- *■ 

The  convictions  I  now  labored  under,  were  not 
like  thofe  legal  convictions  I  had  formerly  felt,  but 
far  worfe,  horrible  beyond  expreffion.  I  looked 
on  myfelf  as  agofpel-finner;  one  that  had  tiampled 
under  foot  the  blood  of  Jefus;  and  for  whom  there 
remained  no  more  facrifice  for  (in.  I  lhall  not  en- 
large here,  chufing  rather  to  fupprefs  than  exag* 
gerate;  as  I  do  not  lay  ilrefs  on  my  own  fuifer^ 
ings,  or  thofe  of  any  other  man,  except  the  man 
Chrift  Jefus;  butfurely  what  I  felt  was  very  griev- 
ous. For  fodeep  was  my  defpair,  that  I  found  in 
me  a  kind  of  wi/h,  that  I  might  only  be  damned 
wit!,  the  common  damnation  of  tranfgrelfors  of 
pod's  law.  But,  oh  !  I  thought  .the  hotteft  place 
in  hell  muft  be  my  portion.  Alj  the  evangelical 
promifes  were  (o  far  from  comforting  me,  that 
they  were  my  great  eft  tormentors;  becaufe  they 
would  onlyincreafe  my  condemnation. 

This  diftrefs  and  an&uifh  of  foul  was  like  wife 


x  P  fc  E  F  A  C  I. 

attended  with  great  infirmity  of  body.  One  morn- 
ing I  was  waked  with  intolerable  pain,  as  if  bails 
or  fire  were  burning  my  reins.  Amidft  this  excru- 
ciating torture,  which  laited  near  an  hour,  one  of 
the  firft  things  I  thought  on  was,  the  pierced  iide 
of  Jefus,  and  what  pain  of  body,  as  well  as  foul, 
'  he  underwent.  Soon  after  this  fiery  ftroke,  I  was 
feized  in  the  evening  with  a  cold  (hivering,  which 
I  concluded  to  be  the  icy  damp  of  death,  and  that 
after  that  mull  come  everlaftmg  damnation.  In 
this  condition  I  went  to  my  bed,  but  dared  not 
dofe  my  eyes,  even  when  nature  was  overcharg- 
ed, left  I  mould  awake  in  hell. 

While  thefe  horrors  remained,  I  ufed  to  run 
backwards  and  forwards  to  places  of  religious 
worlhip,  efpecially  to  the  tabernacle  in  Moorfieids, 
and  the  chapel  in  Tottenham  Court;  where,  in- 
deed, I  received  fome  comfort,  (which,  the'  little, 
was  then  highly  prized,  becaufe  greatly  needed) 
but  in  the  general  almoft  every  thing  ferved  only 
to  condemn  me,  to  make  me  rue  my  own  backfliu- 
ings,  and  envy  thofe  children  of  God,  who  had 
continued  to  walk  honeftly  ever  fince  their  firffc 
convention.  Notions  of  religion  I  wanted  no  maa 
to  teach  me;  I  had  doctrine  enough,  but  found  by 
WOful  experience,  that  dry  doctrine,  though  ever 
Co  found,  will  not  fuftain  a  foul  in  the  dav  of  tria!. 

In  this  fad  ftate  I  went  moping  about,  (and  that 
I  could  was  next  to  a  miracle)  having  {<mv.?  little 
hope  at  the  bottom  under  all,  which  now  and  th*« 
would  glimmer,  but  was  foon  overwhelmed  again 
with  clouds  of  horror,  till  Whitfunday,  1757,  v. 
J  happened  to  go  in  the  afternoon  to  the  Moravian 
\i  1  in  Fetter-Lane,  where  I  had  been  fe\ 
.  before. The  minifter  preached  en  fchcfe 


PRBfACS.  il 

word?:  Becauf?  then  haft  kept  the  <w9rd  ef  my  pz* 
'  tience,  I  alj'o  will  hep  thee  from  the  hour  of  tempt  a- 
pon,  which  Jhall  come  upon  all  the  world,  to  ky 
ihetti  that  dwell  upon  the  earth.  Rev.  Hi.  10.  Tho' 
the  text,  and  molt  of  what  was  laid  on  it,  feemed 
to  make  greatly  againft  me;  yet  I  linseed  with 
much  attention,  and  felt  myfelf  deeply  imprefTed 
by  it.  When  it  was  over,  I  thought  of  battening 
to  Tottenham  Court  chapel;  but  prefently  alter- 
ing my  mind,  returned  to  my  own  houfe. 

I  was  hardly  got  home,  when  I  felt  myfelf  melt- 
ing away  into  a  ilrange  foltnefs  of  affection*  which 
made  me  fling  rrryfelr  on  my  knees  before  God.-— 
My  horrors  were  immediately  difpe'led,  and  fuch 
light  and  comfort  flowed  into  my  heart,  as  no  words 
can  paint.  The  Lord,  by  his  Spirit  or  love,  came, 
not  in  a  vifioaary  manner  into  my  brain,  but  with 
'fuch  divine  power  and  energy  into  my  foul,  that  I 
was  loft  in  blifsfui  amazement.  I  cried  out,  "  What 
*  rae,  Lord?'  Kis  Spirit  aofvvered  in  me,  w  Tes% 
thee.  I  objected:  "  But  I  have  been  io  unfpeaka- 
*•  o'y  vi!e  and  wicked." — The  anfwer  was ;  f por- 
tion thee  fully  and  freely.  Thy  own  goodnefs  ( for  I 
had  now  fet  about  a  thorough  amendment,  if  per- 
ftrtvemure  I  might  be  fpared)  cannot  fave  thee,  nor 
jh  a  -  I  thy  wlckednefs  damn  thee.  I  undertake  to  work, 
nil  thy  works  in  the?  and  for  thee,  and- to  bri.ng  thes 
far:  i .  ill.    1  he  alteration  I  then  felt  in  my 

foul,  was  as  fudden  and  palpable  as  that  which  is 
experienced  by  a  peffon  ftaggericg,  and  almoft 
',finkrng  under  a  burden,  when  it  is  immediately 
taken  from  his  moulder-,  Tears  tan  in  ftrearas 
from  my  eyes  for  a  Coiifiderable  while,  and  I  was 
fofwailowed  up  in  joy  and  thanktulnefs,  that  I 
hardly  knew  where  iiwas.    I  threw  mf  («al  w«8- 


xii  PREFACE. 

ingly  rnto  my  Saviour's  hands;  lay  weeping  at  hit 
feet,  wholly  refigned  to  his  will,  and  only  beg- 
ging that  I  might,  if  he  was  gracioufly  pieafed  to 
permit  it,  be  of  Tome  fervice  to  his  church  and 
people. 

Thenceforth  I  enjoyed  fweet  peace  in  my  foul: 
and  had  fuch  clear  ana  frequent  manifeflations  of 
his  love  to  me,  that  I  longed  for  no  other  heaven. 
My  horrors  were  baniihed,  and  have  not.  1  think, 
returned  fince  with  equal  violence.  And  though 
I  can  fee  little  jigns,  as  yet,  of  his  granting  my 
requeft  concerning  ufefulnefs  ;  *  though  I  am  ve- 
ry barren  of  good,  and  full  of  evil ;  though  I  have 
many  fore  trials  and  temptations  in  my  foul ;  yet 
it  pleafes  the  Lord  to  reveal  himfelf  often  in  me, 
to  open  the  myfteries  of  his  crofs,  and  give  me  to 
tiuft  in  his  precious  blood. 

Not  long  after  this  my — Shall  I  call  it  re-conver" 
fion  ?  I  was  terribly  infefted  with  thoughts  to  mon- 
ilroufly  obfcene  and  blafphemous,  that  they  can- 
not be  fpoken,  nor  fo  much  as  hinted  ;  and,  1  be- 
lieve, fuch  as  hardly  ever  entered  into  the  heatt 
of  any  other  man  ;  though  I  am  lenfible  that  moft 
of  God's  children7  are  fometimes  attacked  in  like 
manner:  But  mine  were  foul  and  black  beyond 
example,  and  feemed  to  be  the  mafter-pieces  of 
hell.  They  haunted  me  ibme  months  ;  and  ufed 
to  make  me  weep  bitterly,  and  cry  earneftly  to 
my  God  to  remove  them :  which  at  laft  he  was 
pieafed  to  do,  in  a  great  meafure ;  though  they 
would  often  be  returning  ftill,  ike  intruding  vi- 
fitanti,  but  are  not  permitted  to  come  with  much 

*  Th?s  waj  wnttsa  before  the  Author's  call  to 
the  miairVy. 


PREFACE.  xiU 

power.  Is  fhort,  I  feel  myfelf  now  as  poor,  as 
weak,  as  heJplefs,  and  dependent  as  ever  ;  but 
now  ray  weaknefs  is  my  great«ft  ftrength  j  I  now 
rejoice,  though  I  rejoice  with  trembling.  _ 

I  foon  began  to  be  vifited  by  God's  Spirit  in  a 
different  manner  from  what  ever  I  had  felt  before. 
I  had  conftant  communion  with  him  in  prayer.—- 
His  fufferings,  his  wounds,  his  agonies  of  ioul, 
were  impreft  upon  me  in  an  amazing  manner.  I 
now  believed  my  name  was  fculpiuted  deep  in 
the  Lord  Jefus's  breaft,  with  characters  never  to 
be  erafed.  I  faw  him,  with  the  eye  of  faith,  ftoop- 
ing  under  the  load  of  my  fins  ;  groaning  and  gro- 
velling in  Gethfemane  for  ??ie.  The  incarnate  God 
was  more  and  more  revealed  to  me  ;  and  J  had 
far  other  notions  of  his  fufferings  than  1  had  en- 
tertained before.  Now  I  faw  that  the  grief  of 
Chrift  was  the  gfief  of  my  Maker ;  that  his  wounds 
were  the  wounds  of  the  Almighty  God  ;  and  the 
leait  drop  of  his  blood  now  appeared  to  me  mar® 
valuable  thaa  ten  thoufands  of  worlds.  As  1  had 
before  thought  his  fufferings  too  little  >  they  now 
appeared  to  me  to  be  too  great ;  and  I  often  cried 
out,  in  tranfports  of  blifsful  aftonifhment,  "  Lord;, 
'tis  too  much,  'tis  too  much  ;  iurely  my  foul  was 
not  worth  fo  great  a  price."  I  had  alfo  fuch  a 
fpirit  of  fympathetic  love  to  the  Lord  Jefus  given 
me,  that  after  I  had  left  off  to  forrow  for  myfelf, 
for  fome  months  I  grieved  and  mourned  bitterly 
for  him.  I  looked  on  him  whom  I  had  pierced", 
and  felt  fuch  (harp  compuncliooj  mixt  at  the  fame 
time  with  fo  much  compaffion,  that  the  pain  and 
the  pleafure  I  experienced,  are  much,  better  tell 
than  ex p reft. 

Jefus  Chrift,  and  he  crucified,  is  now  the  only 
thing  I  defirc  to  know.    In  that  incarnate  myftqftT 


xiv  PREFACE. 

.  are  contained  all  the  rich  treafures  of  divine  wis- 
dom. This  is  the  mark  towards  which  I  am  ftill 
preiling  forward.  This  is  the  cup  of  falvation,  of 
which  1  wim  to  drink  deeper  and  deeper.  This  is 
the  knowledge,  in  which  J  long  to  grow ;  and 
dcfire  a?  the  fame  time  a  daily  increafe  in  all  true 
grace  and  godlinefs.  All  duties,  means,  ordinan- 
ces. Sec.  are  to  me  then  only  rich,  when  they  are 
enriched  with  the  blood  of  the  Lamb;  in  compa- 
rifoa  of  which,  all  things  elfe  are  but  chaff  and 
hulks. 

Pharisaic  Zeal,  and  Antinomian  Szcv- 
rity,  are  the  two  engines  of  Satan,  with  which 
he  grinds  the  church  in  all  ages,  a?  betwixt  the 
upper  and  the  nether  milftone.  The  fpace  between 
them  is  much  narrower  and  harder  to  find  than 
mod  men  imagine.  It  is  a  path  which  the  vul- 
ture's eye  hath  not  feen  ;  and  none  can  fhew  it 
us  but  the  Holy  Ghoft.  Here,  let  no  one  truft  the 
directions  of  his  own  heart,  or  of  any  other  man  ; 
left  by  being  warned  to  fhun  the  one,  he  be  dafhed 
againft  the  other.  The  diftin&ion  is  too  fine  for 
man  to  difcern  :  therefore,  let  the  Chriftian  afk 
direction  of  his  God.  Thefe  two  hideous  mon* 
fters  continually  worry  and  perplex  my  foul  :  Nor 
is  thejorwer,  though  appearing  in  a  holier  fhape, 
one  whit  lefs.but  (;f  Doflibte )  more  odious  to  me 
than  the  latter.  Therefore,  from  the  wonderful 
dealings  of  God  towards  me,  1  endeavor  to  draw 
the  following  obfeivations. 

On  the  one  hand,  I  would  obferve :  That  it  is 
not  of  him  that,  ivilhth  nor  of  him  that  runneth, 
but  of God  ntiblch  the  veth  mercy — That  none  can 
iwake  a  Chriftian,  but  he  that  made  the  world — 
That  it  is  the  glory  of  God  to  bring  good  out  of 


PREFACE,  *v 

evil— That  whom  he  Ioveth  he  Ioveth  unto  the  end 
— That  though  all  men  feek,  more  or  lefs,  to  re- 
commend themfelves  to  God's  favor  by  their 
works,  yet,  to  him  that  ivorketh  not,  but  believetk 
on  Him  that  judifieih  the  ungodly,  his  faith  is 
counted  for  righteoufnefs — That  the  blood  of  the 
Redeemer,  applied  to  the  foul  by  his  Spirit,  is  the 
one  thing  needful — That  prayer  is  the  taffc  and 
Jabor  of  a  Pbarifee  5  bat  the  privilege  and  delight 
of  a  Chriftian-—  That  God  grants  not  the  requeft 
of  his  peoole.  becaufe  they  pray  ;  but -hey  pray, 
becaufe  he  defigns  to  anfwer  their  petitions—  That 
fe!f-righreournefs,  and  legal  holinefs,  rather  keep 
the  i  xAfrom  than  draw  it  to  Chrift—  fhat  rbe? 
who  feek  falvation  bv  them,  purine  Shadows,  mis- 
take the  great  end  of  the  Jaw,  and  err  from  the 
•may,  the  truth,  and  the  life— That  God's  defign 
is  to  glorify  his  Son  alone,  as  to  debafethe  excel- 
lency of  every  creature— That  no  righteoufnefs 
befides  the  righteoufnefs  of  Jefus,  (that  is,  the 
righteoufnefs  of  God)  is  of  any  avail  towards  ac- 
ceptance—  That  to  be  a  moral  man,  a  zealous  man, 
a  devout  man,  i3  veryfhort  of  being  a  Chriftian — • 
That  the  eye  of  faith  looks  more  to  the  blood  of 
Jefus,  than  to  the  foul's  viftory  over  corruptions 
— That  the  dealings  of  God  with  his  people,  tho' 
fimilar  in  the  general,  are  neverthe'efs  fo  various, 
thar  there  is  no  chalking  out  the  path  of  one  child 
©f  God  by  thofe  of  another  ;  no  laying  down  re- 
gular plans  of  chriftian  converfion,  chriftian  expe- 
rience, chriftian  ufefulnefs.  or  chriftian  converfa- 
tion—  That  the  will  of  God  is  the  only  ftaadard 
of  right  and  good — That  the  fprinkling  of  the 
blood  of  a  crucified  Saviour  on  the  confcience,by 
the  rieiy  Ghoft,  fencTifies  a  man ;  without  whick 


*vi  PREFACE. 

the  moft  abftemious  life,  and  rigorous  difcipline, 
is  unholy— -Laftly,  That  fairh  aod  holinefs,  with 
every  other  bleffing,  are  the  purchale  of  the  Re- 
deemer's blood  ;  and  that  he  has  a  right  to  bellow 
them  on  whom  he  will?  in  fucb  a  manner,  and  in 
fuch  a  meaf are,  as  he  thinks  beftj  though  the  fpi- 
rit  in  all  men  lufteth  to  envy. 

On  the  other  haod,  I  would  obferve  :  that  it  is 
not  fo  eafy  to  be  a  Chrifliao  as  forne  men  icem  to 
think — That  for  a  living  foul  really  to  truft  in 
Chrift  alone,  \\teen  he  ices  nothing  in  himfelf  but 
evil  and  iin,  is  an  act  as  fupernatural  as  for  Peter 
to  walk  the  fea — That  mere  doctrine,  though  ever 
fo  found,  will  not  alter  the  heart ;  confcquently, 
that  to  turn  from  one  fet  of  tenets  to  another,  is 
not  Chrirtian  converfion— That  as  much  as  Laza- 
rus coming  out  of  his  grave,  and  feeling  himfelf 
reftored  to  life,  differed  from  thofe  who  only  faw 
the  miracle,  or  believed  the  fact  when  told  them  ; 
fo  great  is  the  difference  between  a  foul's  real  com- 
ing out  of  himfelf*  and  having  the  righreoufnefs 
el  Chrifl  imputed  to  him  by  the  precious  faith  of 
God's  elect,  and  a  man's  bare  believing  the  doc- 
trine of  imputed  righteoufnefs,  becaufe  he  fees  it 
contained  in  fcripture,  or  affenting  to  the  truth  of 
it  when  propofed  to  his  understanding  by  others 
—That  a  whole-hearted  difciple  can  have  but  lit- 
tle communion  with  a  broken-hearted  Lord —  That 
if  any  man  have  net  the  fpirit  of  C£r(fi9  he  is  nojit 
cfkis— That  a  prayerlefs  fpirit,  is  not  the  fpirit  ol 
Chrift  ;  but  that  prayer  to  a  Chriitian,  is  as  neces- 
fary  and  as  natural  as  food  to  a  natural  man — That 
theufual  way  of  going  to  heaven,  is  through  mach 
tribulation — That  the  {inner  which  is  drawn  to 
Guilt .  is  not  he  that  has  learnt  that  he  is  a  finoer 


*HEFAC*.  svii 

by  head-knowledge,  but  that  feels  himfelf  fuch  by 
heart-contrition — That  he  that  believeth,  hath  aa 
ondion  from  the  Holy  One — That  a  true  Chris- 
tian is  as  vitally  united  to  Chrift,  as  my  hand  or 
foot  to  my  body;  confequently  fufFers  and  rejoices 
with  him—  That  a  believer  talks  and  converfes  witk 
(*0& — That  a  dead  faith  can  no  more  cherifh  the 
foul,  Than  a  dead  corpfe  can  perform  the  functions 
of  life — That  where  there  is  true  faith,  there  will 
be  obedience  and  the  fear  of  God — That  he  that 
lives  by  the  faith  of  the  Son  of  God,  eateth  his 
flefh  and  drinketh  his  blood — That  he  that  hath  the 
Son,  hath  life  ;  and  he  thai  hath  net  the  Sen  of 
G9d,  hath  not  life — That  many  imagine  themfelves 
great  believers,  who  have  little  or  no  true  faith  at 
all  ;  and  many,  who  deem  themfelves  void  of  faith, 
cleave  to  Chrift  by  the  faith  of  the  operation  of 
God — That  faith,  like  gold,  muft  be  tried  in  the 
fire,  before  it  can  be  iafely  depended  on — Laftiy, 
that  Chriftians  are  fealed  by  the  Holy  Ghoft  to  the 
day  of  redemption :  and  to  this  feal  they  trail  their 
eternal  welfare,  not  to  naked  knowledge,  or  fpe- 
culative  notions*  though  ever  fo  deep.  They  dread 
to  dream  they  are  rich*  when  they  are  blind  and 
poor:  to  have  a  name  to  live,  and  yet  be  dead  ;  or 
to  be  forced  to  fly  for  precarious  refuge  to  the  con- 
je£lural  fcherne  of  univerfal  falvation,  with  thofe 
who  hope  to  be  Uvea,  becauie  they  think  there 
will  be  none  loih 

For  my  own  part,  I  confefs  myfeif  a  finner  ftilJ; 
and  thongh  I  am  not  much  tempted  to  outward 
r-ofs  acls  of  iniquity,  yet  inward  corruptions  and 
ritual  wickednefs,  continually  harrafs  and  per- 
pj'vx  my  foul,  and  often  make  me  cry  out,  O 
wretched  man  thai  I  amj  nuhoJh&U  deliver  me 


xviii  PREFACE. 

fnem  the  body  §f  this  death  1 — From  me  they  are 
not  yet  removed  ;  though  I  once  hoped,  with  ma- 
ny Others.,  that  I  mould  foon  get  rid  of  them.  All 

1  can  do  is  to  look,  to  Jefus  through  them  ail; 
cling  fall  to  his  wounded  fide  ;  long  to  be  cloath- 
ed  with  his  righteoafnefs  ;  pray  him  to  plead  my 
caufe  againft  thefe  fpiritual  enemies  that  rife  up 
againft  me;  and,  though  I  feel  myfelf  lcpious 
from  head  to  foot,  believe  that  I  am  clean  through 
the  word  which  he  hath  lpoken  unto  me.  In  fhort, 

2  rejoice,  not  becaufe  the  fpirits  are  always  fubject 
to  rne  (for,  alas  !  I  find  they  are  often  too  ilrong 
for  me  to  control)  but  becaufe  my  name  is  writ- 
ten in  heaven. 

I  am  daily  more  and  more  convinced,  that  the 
promifes  of  God  to  his  people,  are  abiblute  ;  and 
ciefire  to  build  my  hopes  on  the  free  electing  love 
of  God  in  Chrift  Jefus  to  my  foul,  before  the  world 
began  ;  which,  I  can  experimentally  and  feelingly 
fay,  hath  delivered  from  the  hiveji  hell.  He  hath . 
plucked  me  as  a  brand  cut  of  the  fire.  Though 
my  ways  were  dreadfully  dangerous  to  the  laft 
degree,  his  eye  was  all  along  upon  me  for  good. 
He  hath  excited  me  to  love  much,  by  forgiving 
me  much.  He  hath  (hewed  me,  and  flill  daily 
fhews  me,  the  abominable  deceit,  Juft,  enmity,  and 
pride  of  my  heart,  and  the  inconceivable  depths 
of  his  mercy  ;  how  far  I  was  fallen,  and  how  much 
it  ccfl  him  of  fweat  and  blood  to  bring  me  up.— 
He  hath  proved  himfelf  ftronger  than  I ;  and  his 
goodnefs  fuperior  to  all  my  unworthinefs.  He 
gives  me  toi/?;iuand  to /eel  too,  that  without  him 
I  can  do  nothing.  He  tells  me  (and  he  enables 
me  to  believe  it)  that  I  ana  all  fair,  and  there  is  no 
Cpotia  rae.    Thgugh  a»  #nemy,  h«  calls  me  his 


PREFACE.  xlx 

friend ;  though  a  traitor,  his  child  ;  though  a  beg- 
gared prodigal,  he  clothes  me  with  the  beji  robe, 
and  has  put  a  ring  of  endlefs  love  and  mercy  on 
my  hand.  And  though  I  am  often  forely^diftreffc 
by  fpiritual  internal  foes,  a  fflicled,  tormented,  and 
bowed  down  almoft  to  death,  with  the  fenfe  of  my 
own  prefent  barrennefs,  ingratitude,  and  prone- 
nefs  to  evil ;  he  fecretiy  (hews  me  his  bleeding 
wounds ;  but  foftly  and  powerfully  whifpers  to 
my  foul,  •*  I  am  thy  great  faivation.'' 

His  free  diftinguifhing  grace  is  the  bottom  on 
which  is  fixt  the  reft  of  mv  poor  weary  tempted 
foul.  On  this  I  ground  my  hope,  oftentimes  when 
unfupported  by  any  other  evidence,  lave  only  by 
the  fpirit  of  adoption  received  from  him-  He  hath 
chofen  me  out  from  everlafling,  in  whom  to  make 
known  the  inexbauftible  riches  of  his  free  grace 
and  lorg-fiiffering.  Though  I  am  a  ftranger  to 
others,  and  a  wonder  to  myfelf;  yet  I  know  bivry 
or  rather  am  know  of  him.  Though  poor  in  my- 
felf, I  am  rich  enough  in  him.  When  my  dry, 
empty,  barren  foul  is  parched  with  thirft,  he  kind- 
Iv  bids  me  come  to  him  and  drink  my  nij  at  the 
fountain-head.  _  In  a  word,  he  empowers  me  to 
fay,  with  experimental  evidence,  where Jiji  abound- 
ed, grace  did  much  mors  abound,  A  me  n  a  a  d  A  mei , 

April,  1759. 


THE 

DEDICATION 

JESUS,  Jehovah,  Lord  of  heaven  and  earth* 
To  whom  I  owe  myfirjl  zn&fecond  birth  ; 
Whofe  hands  firft  formM  me  j  and  whofe  precious 

blood 
Redeem'd  my  foul,  and  gives  me  peace  with  Gods 
My  faithful  Friend,  my  Father  reconciPd, 
Accept  an  offering  from  thy  feeble  child ; 
Whofe  helpiefs  hand  this  token,  mean  and  final  I, 
Would  fondly  give  to  Thee,  who  giv'fl  him  all. 
Take  both  the  gift  and  giver  to  thy  care ; 
May  both  thy  bounty  and  thy  love  declare. 
By  thee  be  both  directed  to  fulfil 
The  holy  counfels  of  thy  heavenly  will. 


As 


THE  FAST  HYMN. 


1  ^TpHE  mighty  God  that  reigns  on  high, 

Inhabiting  eternity  ; 
Who  makes  the  heaven  of  heavens  his  throne, 
The  holy,  high,  and  lofty  One. 
a  Before  the  fpiendor  ofwhofe  rays 
The  brigfrfteft  angel  veils  his  face, 
While  all  the  hoit  with  one  accord 
Cry  holy  ■  holy,  ho'y  Lord  ! 

3  This  God  (fo  humble  is  his  love) 
Stoops  to  behold  the  things  above  ; 
But  lower  Mil!  that  iove  can  go, 
An  d  ftoop  to  vifit  worms  below* 

4  His  royai  flate  afide  he  laid, 

Came  down  to  earth,  a  man  was  made^ 
To  make  poor  men  the  fons  oi  Gody 
And  pay  the  debt  his  brethren  owM, 

5  With  finners  (condefcenfion  great !) 
With  finners  Jefus  deipn'dto  eat; 
And  tempted  in  the  defart  vaft, 
For  finners  he  vouchiai'd  to  faft. 

6  Hunger  and  thirit  with  willing  mind 
He  underwent,  nor  once  repiri'd  , 
Content  beneath  our  ioad  to  groan* 
And  make  our  woes  and  wants  his  own. 

7  Now,  Chriftian,  ofFer  prayers  and  praife; 
Acknowledge  him  in  ail  thy  ways. 

Nor  alms  nor  failings  difeiteem  ; 
For  God  accepts  them  all  in  him. 

2  Fear  not  ;  thy  gracious  God  in  iove 
Thy  prayers  will  hear,  thy  fafts  approves 
For  what  good  thing  can  he  den  j , 

Who  gave  his  only  Son  to  die  .? 


INDEX, 


Page.  F/jm. 

A  Form  of  words,  tho'  e'er  fo  found  121       90 
A.  man  there  is,  a  real  man 
A  faint  there  was  in  days  of  old. 
And  mud  it  Lord  be  fo 
And  now  the  work  is  done 
As  when  a  child  fecure  of  harms 

BELIEVERS  own  they  are  but  blind  106 
Blefs  the  Lord,  my  foul,  and  raife 
Bleffed  are  they  whofe  guilt  is  gone 
Bkft  Spir't  of  truth,  eternal  God 
Brethren,  let  us  praife  our  Lord 
Brethren,  thofe  who  eome  to  blifs 
Brethren,  why  toil  ye  thus  for  toys 
Brethren,  would  you  know  your  ilay 

CHRIST  is  the  friend  of  fmners 
Come  all  ye  chofen  faints  of  God 
Come  hither,  ye  that  fain  would  know 
Come  hither,  ye  that  fear  the  Lord 
Come,  Holy  Spirit,  come 
Come,  my  foul,  and  let  us  try 
Come,  poor  (inners,  come  away 
'Come,  ye  backfliding  fons  of  God 
Come,  ye  ChfiftiSns,  fiug  the  praiies 
Come,  ye  humble  (inner-train 
Come,  ye  redeemed  of  the  Lord 
Come,  ye  miners^  poor  and  wretched 

DARK  is  he  whofe  eye's  not  fingie 
Defcend  from  heaven  celeftiai  Dove 
FAITH  in  Jefus  can  repel 
Faith  in  the  bleeding  Lamb 


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GOD  thu?  commanded  Jacob's  feed    46 

Gracious  God  thy  children  keep  118 

HE  thatbelieveth  Chrift  the  Lord  108 
How  bit  ft  is  the  feafon  16 
Hovv  can  ye  hope,  deluded  fouls  11 
How  hard  and  rugged  is  the  way  114 
How  high  a  privilege  'tis  to  know  135 
How  fore  a  plague  is  (in  138 
How*  ftrange  is  thecourie  that  a  Chris- 
tian muft  fteer  44 
How  wondrous  are  the  works  of  God  37 

I   Am,  faiih  Chrift,  the  way  127 

Jefus  is  our  God  and  Saviour  71 

Jefus  is  the  chiefeft  good  15 

Jefus,  when  on  the  bloody  tree  1 49 

Jefus,  while  he  dwelt  below  99 

If  duit  and  aflies  might  prefume  7  7 

If  ever  it  could  come  to  pafs  J15 

If  unbelief's  that  fin  accurft  5 

In  ail  our  worft  afflictions  19 

Innumerable  foes  79 

Is  then  the  law  of  God  untrue  1  j  1 

KIND  fouls,  whoforthemis'ries  moan  70 

King  Hezekiah  lay  difeas'd  141 

LAMB  of  God  we  fall  before  thee  a* 

Let  us  all  with  grateful  praifes  18 

Let  us  afk  th*  important  queftion  75 

Lord,  look  on  all  aiTembled  here  129 

Lord,  pity  out-cafts  vile  and  bafe  15 1 

Lord,  we  lie  before  thy  feet  98 

Lord,  what  a  riddle  is  my  foul  4 

Lord,  when  1  hear  thy  children  talk  144 

Loid,  when  thy  Spir't  defcend3  to  ihew  60 

"jV/f  AN  bewail  thy  fituation  88 

JAX  Mercy  is  welcome  news  indeed  69 


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INDEX,  F,    a 

Mighty  enemies  without 

Miftakea  men  may  bawl 

Much  we  talk  of  JeiVs  blood 

My  brethren,  why  tbefe  anxious  fears 

JMy  God,  when  I  reflect 

NO  prophet  nor  dreamer  of  dreams 
Now  for  a  wondrous  long 
&ow  from  the  garden  to  the  crofs 

Ye  fons  of  men  be  wife 

Of  all  the  creatures  God  has  made  m 
Oh  !  the  pangs  by  Chriftians  felt 
Oh  !  what  a  narrow,  narrow  path 
Oh !  what  a  fad  and  doleful  night 
Once  more  the  conilant  fan 

JL  ERFECT  holinefs  of  fpirjt 

RIGHTEOUS  are  the  works  of  God  143 
Righteoufneis  to  the  believer 

SOME  Chriftians  to  the  Lord  regard 
a  day 

THAT  day  when  Chriii  was  crucified 
The  fountain  of  Chrift 
The  God  I  truft 

The  Holy  Ghoil  in  fcripture  faith 
The  Lord  aiTur'd  the  chofen  race 
TheLord  that  madebotbheav'n  and  earth 
The  moon  and  ftars  mall  lofe  their  light 
The  finner  that  by  precious  faith 
The  finner  that  trulv  believes 
The  foul  that  with  fincere  defires 
The  fouls  that  would  to  Jefus  prefs 
The  things  on  earth  which  men  efteem 
Though  ftrait  be  the  way 
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Thus  faith  the  Lord  to  thofe  that  (land 
To  comprehend  the  great  Thiee-One 
To  you  who  iland  m  Chrift  To  fail 

"1T7*HAT  makes  miflaken  men  afraid 
VV   What fla villi  fears  molcftmy  mind 
ifthsLl  tongue  can  fully  tell 
Whatever  prompts  the  foul  to  pri2e 
When  Aaron  in  the  holieft  place 
V.  hen  Adam  by  tranfgre£ion  fell 
When  deal  to  every  warning  given 
When  I  by  faith  my  Maker  lie 
When  Jefus  with  his  mighty  love 
When  is  it  Chriilians  all  agree 
When  Ncah  with  his  favor'd  few 
When  the  bleft  day  of  Pentecoft 
When  we  prayorwhen  wefing 
Whene'er  I  make  fome  fudden  flop 
Whoe'er  belreves  aright 
Wide  is  the  gate  of  death 

YE  children  of  Gcd 
Ye  lambs  of  Chrift's  fold 
Ye  fouls  that  are  weak 
Ye  tempted  fouls  refieft 


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»■  __— 

HYMNS,   &c. 


L 


f',:i' 


On  the  Passion. 


1  /^OME  all  ye  chofen  faints  of  God, 
VJ  That  long  to  feel  the  cleanfing  blood| 
Inpenlive  pleafure  join  with  me, 
To  ling  of  fad  Gethfemane. 

A.  Gethfemane  the  Olive  Prefs  ! 

(And  why  £o  calfd,  let  Chriftians  guefs.) 
iit  name!  fit  place!  where  vengeance  iirove* 
And  grip'd  and  grappled  hard  with  love. 

3  Twas  here  the  Lord  of  life  appear'd. 

And  figh'd,  and  groan'd,  and  pray'd,  and  fear'd| 

Bore  all  incarnate  God  could  bear, 

With  ftrength  enough;  and  none  to  fpare. 

4  The  powers  of  hell  united  prefs'd, 

And  fqueez'd  hi3  heart,  and  bruis'd  his  breaft; 
What  dreadful  con&tcls  rag'd  within, 
When  fweat  and  blood  forc'd  thro'  the  fkia  I 

5  Difpatch'd  from  heaven  an  angel  flood, 
Amazd  to  find  him  bath'd  in  blood  ! 
Ador'd  by  angels  and  obey'd  ; 

But  lower  row  thaa  angels  made. 


g  HJRT's  HYMNS. 

6  He  flood  to  ftrengthen,  not  to  fight: 
Juftice  exacts  its  utmoftmite. 
This  victim  vengeance  will  purfue  : 
He  undertook,  and  muft  go  through. 

9  Three  favor'd  fervants,  left  not  far, 
Were  bid  to  wait,  and  watch  the  war  : 
But  Chrift  withdrawn,  what  watch  we  keep } 
To  f-hun  the  fight,  they  funk  in  fleep. 

g  Backwards  and  forwards  thrice  he  ran, 
As  if  he  fought  fome  help  from  man  ; 
Or  wifh'd^t  leaft,  they  would  condole 
('Twas  all  they  couid)  his  tortpr'dfoul. 

9  Whate'er  he  fought  for,  there  was  none  $ 
Our  Captain  fought  the  field  alone  : 
'Soon  as  the  chief  to  battle  led, 

That  moment  every  foldier  fled. 

10  My fterious  conflict!  dark  difguife! 
Hid  from  all  creatures  peeiing  eyes: 
Angels  aftonihVd  view'd  the  fcene  ; 
And  wonder  yet  what  all  could  mean. 

ix  O  Mount  of  Oliver,  facred  grove! 
O  garden,  icene  of  tragic  love  ! 
What  bitter  herbs  thy  beds  produce  ! 
How  rank  their  fcent !  how  barftr  their  juice  I 

1%  Rare  virtues  now  thefe  herbs  contain  : 
The  Saviour  fuck'd  out  all  their  bane. 
My  mouth  with  thefe  if  confeience  cram, 
J '11  eat  them  with  the  Pafca!  Lamb. 

13  O  Kedroii*  eloomy  b^ook,  how  foul 
Thy  black  poiiaud  *.v*:er$  roll  I 


HART*  HTMNS, 

Ko  tongue  can  tell  (but  fome  can  tafte) 
The  filth  that  into  thee  was  caft. 

ty  In  Eden's  garden  there  was  food 
Of  every  kind  for  man,  while  good  J 
But  banilh'd  thence,  we  fly  to  thee, 
O  garden  of  Gsthfemam. 


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Part  a. 

A  ND  why,  dear  Saviour,  tell  me  why 
"    i  hou  thus  wouldil  iuffer,  bleed,  and  die  ? 
What  mighty  motive  could  thee  move  ? 
The  motive's  plain  j  'twas  all  for  iove. 

a  For  love  of  whom  ?  Offinners  bafe, 
A  harden'd  herd,  a  rebel  race  ; 
That  mock'd  and  trampled  on  thy  blood, 
And  wanton' d  with  the  wounds  of  Qod.    - 

3  When  rocks  and  mountains  rent  with  dread* 
And  gaping  graves  gave  up  their  dead  ; 
When  the  tair  fun  withdrew  his  light, 
And  hid  his  head  to  ihun  the  fight. 

$  Then  flood  the  wretch  of  human  race, 
And  rais'd  his  head,  and  ihew'd  his  face  | 
Gaz'd  unconcern'd  when  nature  faild, 
And  feoff 'd,  andfaeer'd,  and  curs'd,  and  rail'd* 

|  Harder  than  rocks  and  mountains  are, 
More  dull  than  dirt  and  earth  by  far, 
Man  view'd  unmov'd  thy  blood's  rich  flreans* 
Nor  ever  dream'd  it  flow'd  for  him. 


6 


Such  was  that  race  of  finful  men. 
That  gaia'd  that  great  falvation  she$. 


*  HURT'S   HTMN$. 

Such,  and  fuch  only.  friU  we  fee. 
Such  they  were  a'!-;-  and  fuch  are  we. 

7  The  Jews  with  thorns  his  temples  crown'd  ; 
And  lafhfd  him  when  his  hanas  were  bound  ; 
But  thorns;  and  knotted  whips,  and  bands>- 
By  us  were  fumifh'd  to  their  hand?. 

S  They  nail'd  him  to  the  accurfed  tree. 
They  did,  my  brethren,  fo  did  we. 
The  foldier  piere'd  his  fide,  'tis  true  ; 
But  we  have  piere'd  him  through  and  through 

9  O  love,  of  unexampled  kind  ! 

That  leaves  all  thought  fo  far  behind  :. 
Where  length,  and  breadth,  and  depth,  and 

height, 
Are  loft  to  my  aftonifh'd  fight. 

io  For  love  of  me  the  Son  of  God 
Drain'd  every  drop  of  vital  blood. 
JLong  time  I  after  idols  ran  ; 
But  now  my  God's  a  martyr'd  man. 


II. 

TJnSETTLEDNESSo. 

t  T    CRD,  what  a  riddle  is  my  foul ! 

JL^t  Alive  whan  w»unded.  dead  when  whole. 
Fondly  I  flee  from  pain  ;  yet  eafe 
Cannot  content,  nor  pleafure  pleafe. 

%  Thou  hid'ft  thy  face  ;  my  fins  abound, 
World,  Uefh,  and  Satan;  all  iurroand  i 


HART's   HTMNS. 

Fain  would  I  find  my  God  ;  but  fear 
The  means,  perhaps, may  prove  fevere. 

$  If  thou  the  leaftdifpleafure  ffcew, 
And  bring  my  vikueft  to  my  view  ; 
Timorous  and  weak  I  formic  and  fay, 
'<  Lord  keep  thy  chaftening  hand  away.'* 

4  If  reconcil'd  I  fee  thy  face, 

Thy  ma'chlefs  mercy,  boundlefs  grace  5 
Tortur'd  with  blifs,  I  cry,  "  Remove 
"  That  killing  fight ;  I  die  with  love." 

5  My  dear  Redeemer,  purge  this  drofs  5 
Teach  me  to  hug  and  love  the  crofs  ; 
Teach  me  thy  chaftening  to  fuftain  ; 
Difcern  the  love,  and  bear  the  pain. 

£  Nor  fpare  to  make  me  clearly  fee 
The  forrows  thru  haft  felt  for  me  ; 
If  death  mo  ft  follow.  I  comply  : 
Let  me  be  lick  with  love  and  die. 


III. 

The  doubting  Christians 

X  TF  unbelief's  that  fin  accurft, 
A  Abhorred  by  God  above, 
Becaufe  of  ail  oppofers  worit. 
It  fights  againit  his  iove  ; 

&  How  (hall  a  heart  that  doubts  like  mine, 
Bifmay'd  at  every  breath, 
Pretend  to  live  the  life  divine  ; 
Or  fight  the  fight  of  faith? 


6  HARTs  ffrMNb, 

$  Confc'ence  accufes  from  within 
And  others  from  without ; 
I  feel  my  foal  the  fink  ef  fin  ; 
And  this  produces  doubt. 

4  Whenthoufand  fins  of  various  dyes* 

Corruptions  dark  and  foul, 

Paily  within  my  bofom  rife, 

And  blacken  all  my  foul  j 

5  I  groan,  and  grieve,  and  cry,  and  call 

On  Jefusfor  relief; 
But  that  delay  d,  to  doubting  fall, 
Of  all  my  fins  the  chief. 

6  Sach  dire  diforders  vex  my  foul, 

That  ill  engenders  ijl : 
And  when  my  heart  T  teel  fo  foul, 
I  make  it  fouler  dill. 

7  In  this  diftrefs,  the  courfe  I  take 

Is,  ftilltocall  znd  pray; 
And  wait  the  time,  when  Chrift  mail  fpeak> 
And  drive  my  foes  away. 

8  For  that  bleft  hour  I  figh  and  pant, 

With  wifh.es  warm  and  ftrong  : 
But,  deareft  Lord,  left  thefe  fhould  faintj 
Oh!  do  not  tarry  long. 


IV. 

To  the  Holy  Ghost* 


l'  (pOME,  Ho'y  Spirit,  come, 
^  Let  thy  bright  beams  arife  ^ 
piipel  the  ^rknffs  from  our  minds* 
And  open  all  our  eyes. 


HJRT's  HTMNS, 

z  Chear  our  defponding  hearts, 
Thou  heav'nly  Paraclete; 
Give  us  to  lie  with  humble  hope, 
At  our  Redeemer's  feet. 

$  Revive  our  drooping  faith. 

Oar  doubts  and  fears  remove  ; 
And  kindle  in  our  breafc  the  flames 
Of  never-dying  love. 

4  Convince  us  of  our  fin, 

Then  lead  to  TeiVs  blood  ; 
And  to  our  wond'ring  view  reveal 
The  fecret  love  of  God. 

5  Shew  us  that  loving  man, 

That  rules  the  courts  of  blifs  ; 
The  Lord  of  Boils,  the  mighty  God, 
Th'  eternal  Prince  of  Peace. 

6  Tis  thine  to  cleanfe  the  heart, 

To  fanftify  the  foul, 
To  pourfre'li  life  on  every  part, 
And  new  create  the  whole. 

7  If  thou,  cefeftiai  dove, 

1  bine  influence  withdraw) 

izi\  v;i:;ms  icon  we  fall, 
To  confcience,  wrath,  and  lawf 

J$  No  longer  burns  our  love  ; 
Our  faith  and  r.  a  i  *pee  ; 

lift  revives  ;  and  death  and  hell 
Oar  feeble  fouis  aflkif. 

9  Dwell  therefore  in  our  hearts? 
Oi*r  mincis  from  bondage  free, 
Then  fhall  we  know,  and  praife,  and  lore, 
The  father,  Son,  and  Thee. 


S  HART'%    HYMNS. 

V- 
Another. 

I  IDLEST  Spirit  of  truth,  eternal  God, 
JL)  Thou  meek  and  lowly  dove, 
Who  iiirft  the  foul,  thro'  Jefu's  blood, 
With  faith,  and  hope,  and  love ; 

a  Who  ccmforteft  the  heavy  heart, 
By  Jin  and  forrow  preft  ; 
Who  to  the  dead  can'ft  life  impart, 
And  to  the  weary;  reft. 

3  Thyfweet  communion  charms  the  foul, 

And  gives  true  peace  and  joy, 
Which  Satan's  power  cannot  controul, 
Nor  all  his  wiles  deftroy. 

4  Come  from  the  blifsful  realms  above* 

Our  longing  breafts  infpire, 
With  thy  foft  flames  of  heavenly  love. 
And  fan  the  facred  fire. 

5  Let  no  falfe  comfort  lift  us  up, 

To  confidence  that's  vain  : 
Nor  let  their  faith  and  courage  droop, 
For  whom  the  Lamb  was  (lain. 

6  Dreathe  comfort,  where  diflrefs  abounds, 

Make  the  whole  c  jnfcience  clean  ; 
And  heal  with  balm  from  Jefu's  wound?, 
The  fettering  fores  of  fin. 

7  Vanquifh  our  lufts>  our  pride  remove  j 

1  ake  out  the  heart  of  itone. 
Shew  us  the  Father's  boundlef*  love. 
And  merks  of  the  Son. 


HART's    HTMNS. 

The  Father  fent  the  Son  to  die, 
The  willing  Son  obey'd  ; 

The  witnefs  thou,  to  ratify 
The  purchafe  Chriil  has  made. 


VI. 

Another. 

t  TXESCEND  from  heaven,  celeRial  dove, 
XJ  With  flames  of  pure  feraphic  lo?e, 

OarravifiYd  breads  inlpire  ; 
Fountain  of  joy,  blefl  Paraclete, 
Warm  our  cold  hearts  with  heavenly  heat* 

And  fet  our  fouls  on  fire. 

I  Breathe  on  thefe  bones,  fo  dry  and  dead  ^ 
Thy  fweeteft  foftefr.  influence  ihed. 

In  all  our  hearts  abroad. 
Point  out  the  place  where  grace  abounds  ; 
Biredl  us  to  the  bleeding  wounds 
Of  our  incarnate  God. 

Conduct,  blefl  guide,  thy  finner-train 
To  Calv'ry,  where  the  Lamb  was  flain  % 

And  with  us  there  abide. 
Let  us  our  lov'd  Redeemer  meet, 
Weep  o'er  his  pierced  hands  and  fc£lt 

And  view  his  wounded  fide. 

From  which  pure  fountain  if  thou  draw 
Water  to  quench  the  fiery  law, 

And  blood  to  purge  our  tin, 
We'll  tell  the  Father  in  that  dav, 
(And  thou  (bait  witnefs  what  we  fay) 
"  We're  clean,  juit  God,  we're  clean," 


to  HJRT's   HTMNS. 

5  Teach  us  for  what  to  pray,  and  how  ; 
And  firice,  kind  God,  'tis  only  thou 

Thethrjone  of  grace  can  more, 
Pray  thou  for  us  that  we,  through  faith, 
May  feel  th*  effects  of  Jefu's  death, 

Through  faith  that  works  by  love. 

6  Thou,  with  the  Father  and  the  Son, 
Art  that  myilmous  t'nree-in-one, 

God  B!eLl  for  evermore  ; 
Whom  though  we  cannot  comprehend, 
ngthou  art  'he  fnn^r's  friend, 
We  icve  thee,  and  ad 


VII. 

Christ  very  God  and  Mant. 

i    A    Man  there  is,  a  real  man, 
1  *■  With  wounds  ftill  gaping  wide, 
(From  which  tns  of  biood  once  ran) 

In  handstand  feet,  and  fide. 

a  ('Tis  no  wild  fancy  of  om  brains, 
No  metaphor  we  fpeak  ; 
The  fame  dear  man  in  heav'n  now  rei^-"; 
That  lbiier'd  for  our  fake.) 

3  This  wondrous  man  of  whom  we  tell, 

Is  true  Almighty  God  : 
Ke  b  >ught  our  fouls  from  death  and  he!) ; 
The  price  his  own  heart's  biood. 

4  That  human  heart  he  ftill  retains, 

1  hough  thron'd  in  higheft  blifs  : 

Aiio  fccij  each  temprer!  member's  pains  I 
I   r  dor  affliflioia's  his. 


HJRT's    HTMNS. 

5  Come  then;,  repenting  finner,  come  5 

Approach  with  humble  faith  : 
Owe  what  thou  wik,  ^he  total  fun* 
Is  cancel! 'd  by  his  death. 

6  His  blood  can  cJeanfe  the  biackeit  foul, 

And  wafh  our  guilt  away  : 
Heiha'lprefent  us  founded  whole 
In  that  tremendous  day. 


VIII. 

Salvation  by  Christ  alonb, 

1  TTOWcan  ye  hope,  deluded  fouls, 
jLJL    To  fee  what  none  e'er  faw, 
Salvation  by  the  works  obtain'd 
Of  Sinai's  fiery  law  ? 

a  There  ye  may  toil,  and  weep,  and  faft, 
And  vex  ycur  heart  with  pain  ; 
And  when  ye've  e^ded,  find  at  lait 
That  ail  your  toil  was  vain. 

3  That  law  but  makes  your  guilt  abound  5 
Sad  help!  and  (what  is  worfe) 
.All  fouls  that  under  that  are  found, 
By  God  hfriifelf  arecurft, 

45  This  curfe  pertains  to  thofe  who  break 
One  precept,  eer  fo  fmall  ; 

And  where's  the  man,  in  thought  or  dtQ&3 
That  has  not  broken  all  ? 

5  Flvthen.  awaken'd  finner,  fly; 
Your  cafe  admits  no  ft«y: 
The  fountain's  open'd  now  for  fin^ 
Come  warn  ^our  guik  away. 


32  HARTt   HTMNS. 

6  See  how  from  Jefu's  wounded  fide 

The  water  flows,  and  blood  ; 
If  vou  but  touch  that  purple  tide 
You  make  your  peace  with  God, 

7  Only  by  faith  in  Jefu's  wounds 

The  (inner  jrets  releafe  : 
Ko  other  facrifice  for  fin 
Will  God  accept  but  this. 


IX. 
Of  Sanctification. 

S  HpHE  Holy  Ghcftin  fcripture  faith, 
Exprefsly  in  one  part, 
(Speaking  by  Peter's  mouth)*  "  By  faith 
*'  God  purifies  the  heart." 

a,  Now  what  in  holy  writ  he  fays. 
In  part,  or  through  the  whole, 
The  fclf-fame  truths  by  various  ways, 
He  teaches  in  the  foul. 

3  Experience  likewife  tells  us  this ; 

Before  the  Saviour's  blood 
Has  wafh'd  us  clean,  and  made  our  peace, 
We  can  do  nothing  good. 

4  But  here,  my  friends,  the  danger  lies  ; 

Errors  of  different  kind 
Will  ftill  creep  in  ;  which  devils  devife 
To  cheat  the  human  mind 

*  Ac"U  xv.  9. 


HART's    HYMNS.  \% 

/  "  I  want  no  work  within  (favs  one) 
" 'Tis  all  in  Chrift  the  head." 

Thus  carelefs  he  goes  blindly  on, 
And  trufts  the  faith  that's  dead. 

6  "  'Tis  dang'rous  (another  cries) 
"  To  trull  to  faith  alone  : 
*'  Chriit's  righteoufnefs  will  not  fuffice, 
"  Except  I  add  ray  own." 

5?  Thus  he,  that  he  may  fomething  do 
To  fnun  the  impending  curfe, 
Upon  the  old  will  patch  the  new, 
And  make  the  rent  ftill  worfe. 

%  Others  affirm  the  Spir't  of  God, 
To  true  believers  given, 
Makes  all  their  thoughts  and  acts  fo  good, 
Theyf re  always  fit  for  heaven. 

9  The  babe  of  Chrift,  at  hearing  this, 
Is  fill'd  with  anxious  fear  ; 
Confcience  condemns,  corruptions  rife, 
And  drive  him  near  defpair. 

io  Thefe  trials  weaklings  fuffer  here, 
Cenfure  and  fcorn  without  , 
And  from  within  (what's  worfe  to  bear) 
Defpondency  and  doubt. 

ii  But,  gracious  Lord,  who  once  did  feel 
What  weaknefs  is,  and  fears  ; 
Who  got'ft  thy  victory  over  hell 
With  groans,  and  cries,  and  tears  \ 

%\  Do  thou  direct  our  feeble  hearts 
To  truft  thee  for  the  whole ; 
The  work  of  grace,  in  all  it's  parts? 
Accomplish  in  the  foul. 


14  HART*   HTMN8. 

13  Thy  holy  Spir't  into  us  breathe  : 
A  psrfc&Savicur  prove. 
Lord  give  its  fa;th  ;  and  let  that  faith 
Work  aU  thy  will  by  love. 


X. 
The  enlightened  Sinner* 

I  TyjY  God  !   when  I  rtfleel, 
A  How  all  my  ITe-tim    pa#, 
1  ran  the  roads  of  fin  and  death, 
th  rafti  impetuous  haile; 
a  My  foolimnefs  I  hate, 
My  filthinefs  I  loath  ; 
And  view  with  (harp  remorfeand  fhame, 
My  filth  and  folly  both. 

3  With  Tome  the  temnteY  takes 

Much  pains  to  make  them  mad  ; 
But  me  he  found,  and  always  held, 
rhe  eafieft  fool  he  had. 

4  Kis  deep  and  dang'rous  lies, 

So  grofsly  I  Miev'd, 
He  was  not  readier  to  deceive, 
rhan  i  to  be  deceiv'd. 

5  His  light  and  piry  dream z 

I  took  for  folid  good  ; 
And  thought  his  bafe  aJuh'rate  coia 
The  riclies  ot'thy  blood. 

6  And  doft  thou  ftill  regard, 

.n,i  caft  a  gracious  eye 
Qn  one  fo  ■  -b  blind- 

So  dead)  £0  loft,  as  J  ? 


HJRT'3  HTMNS.  .a$ 

Then  flnners,  black  as  hell, 

May  hence  for  hope  have  ground  ; 

For  who  of  mercy  needs  delpair3 
Since  I  have  mercy  found  I 


XL 

Jesus  cur  All. 

I   TESUS  is  the  chiefeit  good, 
J    He  has  fav'd  us  by  his  blood, 
Let  us  value  nought  but  him  ; 
Nothing  die  deferves  dieem. 

3  Jefus,  wh?n  ftein  jnilice  faid, 
M  Man  his  life  has  forfeited, 
"  Vengeance  follows  bv  decree,'* 
Cried,  "  Inflift  it  all  on  me." 

3  Jefus  gives  us  life  and  peace, 
Faith,  and  love,  and  holinefs  ; 
Every  bteffing,  great  or  imail, 
Jefus  foi  us  purchas'd  all. 

4.  Jefus  therefore  let  us  own; 
Jefu9  we'll  exalt  alone. 
Jefus  has  our  fins  forgiv'n  ; 
Jefa's  blood  has  bought  us  heav'fl, 


XII. 

Christ's  Nativity. 

t  f^OME,  ye  redeemed  of  the  Lord, 
^J  Your  grateful  tribute  bring; 
And  celebrate,  with  one  accord. 
The  birth-day  of  our  kirg. 


16  HAKTi  HYMNS, 

0  Let  us  with  humble  hearts  repair, 
(Faith  will  point  out  the  road) 
To  little  Bethlehem  ;  and  there 
Adore  our  infant  God. 

3  In  Twaddling  bands  the  Saviour  view ! 

Let  none  this  weaknefs  fcorn  ; 
The  feebleft  heart  mail  hell  fubdue, 
Where  Jefus  Chrift  is  born- 

4  No  pomp  adorns,  no  fweets  perfume. 

The  place  where  Chrift  is  laid. 
A  ftable  ferves  him  for  his  room  ; 
A  manger  is  his  bed. 

5  The  crouded  inn,  like  finners  heartSj 

(O ignorance  extreme)! 
For  other  guefts  of  various  forts 
Had  room ;  but  none  for  him. 

6  But  fee  what  different  thoughts  arifo 

In  our's  and  angel's  breafts  : 
To  hail  his  birth  they  left  the  fkies; 
We  lodg'd  him  with  the  beads. 

y  Yet  let  believers  ceafe  their  fears, 
Nor  envy  heavenly  powers  ; 
Iffinlefs  innocence  be  theirs^ 
Redemption  all  is  ours. 


XIII. 

Another. 

t  TTOW  bleft  is  the  feafon, 
*■"■*■   At  which  we  appear! 
Bcw  down,  fenfe  and  reafon, 
Faith  only  reign  here. 


HARl's  HTMNS.  i? 

*Tis  heard  by  mere  nature* 

With  coldnefs  or  fcorn, 
That  God  our  creator 

An  infant  was  born. 

a  Loft  fouls  to  recover 

And  form  them  afrefii, 
Our  wonderful  lover 

Tookflem  of  our  flefti  : 
Then  let  each  dull  dreamer 

Awake  to  this  morn, 
And  hail  the  Redeemer 

At  Bethlehem  born. 

3  Ye  drunkards,  ye  fwearers, 

Ye  muckworms  of  earth, 
Repent,  and  be  (harers 

In  this  blelTed  birth. 
From  (in  to  releafe  us, 

That  yoke  fo  long  worn, 
The  holy  child  J'eius 

Of  Mary  was  born. 

4  Oppofers,tranfgrei7ors> 

Of  every  degree, 
And  formal  profefTors, 

I  he  worft  of  the  three, 
With  tears  of  contrition 

Your  fooliftinefs  mourn ; 
To  give  you  remimon 

Immanuel's  born. 

I  Ye  vilefl:  of  creatures, 
Backfiiders  fo  bafe, 
Ibid  rebels  and  traitors* 
Abufcrs  cf  grace8 


18  HART**   HTMNS. 

Come  ceafe  your  b^ckfLjings, 
'Vnd  once  more  return  ; 

Receive  the  glad  tidings, 
A  Saviour  is  born. 

6  PooMlnners  dejecled, 

Of  comfort  dcbarr'd. 
Whole  hearts  are  afHifled 

Becaufe  they're  fo  hard, 
Defpairing  of  favor. 

Cold,  lifelefi,  forlorn  I 
Remember  the  Saviour 

In  winter  was  born. 

7  And  ve;  that  fincerely 

Confide  in  the  La -Tib, 
(He  loves  you  moft  dearly) 

Rejoice  in  his  name. 
Kn  more  ih*  believer 

From  God  (hall  be  torn  % 
To  hold  him  for  ever. 

An  infant  is  born. 


XIV. 

Another. 

T  FT  us  all  with  Tatefu'  praifes 
■*-*  Celebrate  the  happy  day* 
When  the  'oveiy  loving  Jefus 
Fi^ty  rarrook  of  human  clar  : 
VNen  the  heavenly  ho  ft  afTemMed, 
Gaz'd  with  wonder  from  the  iky: 
Angels  joy'd,  and  devils  trembled, 
Neither  fully  knowing  why. 


HART' i   ffTMNS.  j9 

(ft  Long  had  Satan  reign'd  imperious, 
'  Jill  the  woman's  promis'd  feed, 
Born  a  babe,  by  birth  myiterious, 
Came  to  bruife  the  ferpent's  head. 
Crufh,  dear  babe,  his  power  within  \as9 
Break  oar  chains,  and  fet  us  free  : 
Puii  down  all  the  bars  between  us, 
'  fill  we  fly,  and  cleave  to  thee. 

Shepherds  on  their  Hocks  attending, 
Shepherds  that  in  night-time  watch'd, 
Saw  the  mefT;nger  deicending, 
From  the  court  of  heav'n  difpatch'd. 
Beams  of  glory  deck'd  his  million, 
.Buriling  through  the  veil  of  night : 
Fear  poffefs'd  them  at  the  vilion  ; 
Sinners  tremble  at  the  light. 

Dove-like  meekncfs  grac'd  his  vifage  ; 
Joy  and  love  i-hone  round  his  head  ; 
Soon  he  cheer' d  them  with  his  melTage  5 
Comfort  flow'd  from  all  he  faid. 
**  Fear  not  fav'rites  of  the  Almighty^ 
**  Jcyfui  news  to  you  I  bring  : 
**  You  have  now  in  David's  city, 
"  Born,  a  Saviour,  Chrift  the  King. 

(i  Go  and  find  the  royal  Granger, 
*•  By  thefe  figns  :  A  babe  you'll  iee, 
"  Weak,  and  lying  in  a  manger, 
"  Wrapt  and  fwaddled  ;  that  is  he.1* 
Strait  a  hod  of  angels  glorious 
Round  the  heav'niy  herald  throng, 
Uttering  in  harmonious  choius, 
Airs  divine  ;  and  this  the  long  : 

"  Glory  firil  to  God  be  given 

«'  la  the  higheil  heights  j  and  thea. 


$o  HART' t   HTMNS. 

*l  Peace  on  earth,  proclalm'd  by  heaven, 
*'  Peace  and  great  good  will  to  men.'* 
Thus  they  fang  with  rapture  kindling 
In  the  fhepherds  hearts  a  flame  ; 
Joy  and  wonder  fweetly  ming'ing: 
All  believers  feel  the  fame. 

?  Lo,  fweet  babe,  we  fall  befote  thee  % 
Jefus,  thee  we  all  adore  : 
To  thee,  kingdom,  power,  and  glory, 
We  afcrtbe  for  evermore. 
Ghry  to  our  God  he  given 
In  the  highejl  heights  ;  and  then 
Peace  on  earth  brought  down  from  heaven, 
Peace  and  great  good  will  to  ?nen. 


XV. 

Tribulation. 

z  '"PHE  fouls  that  would  to  Jefus  prefs, 
•"■    Muft  fix  this  firm  and  lure  ; 
That  tribulation,  more  or  lefs, 
They  muit  and  mall  endure. 

a  From  this  there  can  be  none  exempt ; 
Tis  God's  own  wife  decree. 
Satan  the  weakeft  faint  will  tempt : 
Nor  is  theftrongeft  free. 

3  The  world  oppofes  from  without, 

And  unbelief  within  : 
We  fear,  we  faint,  we  grieve,  we  doubt ; 
And  feel  the  load  of  fan. 

4  Glad  frames  too  often  lift  us  up  ; , 

And  then  how  proud  we  grow  I 


HART*  HYMNS.  tf 

^Tillfad  defertion  makes  us  droop  ; 
And  down  we  fink  as  low. 

3  Ten  thoufand  baits  the  foe  prepares, 
Tocatch  the  wand'ring  heart  j 
Andfeldom  do  we  fee  the  fnares, 
Before  we  feei  the  frnart. 

i  But  let  not  all  this  terrify, 
Purfue  the  narrow  path  ; 
Look  to  the  Lord  with  ftedfafl  eye. 
And  fight  with  hell  by  faith. 

?  Tho'  we  are  feeble,  Chrift  is  ftrong  : 
His  promifes  are  true. 
.We  mail  be  conqu'rors  all  ere  long  ; 
And  more  than  conqu'rors  too. 


XVI. 

Day. 

OTQCE  more  the  conftant  fun, 
Revolving  round  his  fphere. 
His  £eady  courfe  has  run, 
And  brings  another  year. 
He  rifes,fets, 
But  goes  not  back  ; 
Nor  ever  quits 
His  deitin'd  track. 

Hence  let  believers  learn 
To  keep  a  forward  pace  ; 
Be  this  our  main  concern, 
To  finifh  wel)  our  race. 

BackOidings  fhun  ; 

With  patience  preis 


it  HJRI's   HTMNS. 

Towards  the  fun 
Of  righteoufnefs. 

%  What  now  fhall  be  our  tafk  ? 
Or  rather  what  our  prayer  ? 
What  good  thing  fhall  we  afkj 
To  profper  this  new  year  I 
With  one  accord 
Our  hearts  we'll  lift; 
Andafk  our  Lord 
Some  New- Year's  Gift. 

4  No  trifling  gift  orfmall, 

Should  friends  of  Chritt  defire  ; 
Rich  Lord  beftow  on  all 
Pure  gold,  well  tried  by  fire  ; 

Faith  that  (lands  fait. 

When  devils  roar  ; 

And  lore  that  lafts 

For  evermore. 


XVII. 
Christ  the  Believer's  All, 

I  T  AMB  of  God,  we  fall  before  thee, 
•*-*  Humbly  truiting  in  thy  crofs  : 
That  atone  be  all  our  glory  ; 
All  things  eife  are  dung  and  drofs. 
Thee  we  own  a  perfect  Saviour, 
Only  fource  of  all  that's  good  : 
livery  grace,  and  every  favor, 
Comes  to  us  through  Jefu's  blood. 

%  Jefus  gives  us  true  repentance^ 
By  his  Spirit  fent  from  heaven: 


HJRJ's   HYMNS. 

Jefus  whifpers  this  fweet  fentence, 
**  Son,  thy  fins  are  all  fcrgiv'n." 
Faith  he  gives  us  to  believe  it ; 
Grateful  hearts  his  love  to  prize  : 
Want  we  wifdom  ?  He  mull  give  it  5 
Hearing  ears,  and  feeing  eyes. 

Jefus  gives  us  pure  affections ; 
Wills  to  do  what  he  requires  : 
Makes  us  follow  his  directions  ; 
And  what  he  commands,  irifpires. 
All  our  prayers,  and  all  cur  praifes, 
Rightly  offer'd  in  his  name, 
He  that  dictates  them  is  Jefus  : 
He  that  anfwers,  is  the  fame. 

When  we  live  on  jefu's  merit, 
Then  we  worfhip  God  aright : 
Father,  Son,  and  Holy  Spirit, 
Then  we  favingly  unite. 
Hear  the  whole  concluficn  of  it : 
Great  or  good,  whatever  we  call, 
God,  or  King,  or  Priefl,  or  Prophet, 
JefusChiiilisaiiinall. 


XVIII. 

Lord,  if  thou  wilt,  thoti  canjl  make  ??ie  clean* 
Matth.  viii.  z. 

QH!  the  pangs  by  Chriflians  felt, 
•        When  their  eyes  are  open  ; 
When  they  fee  the  gulphs  of  guilt, 

They  mull  wade  and  grope  in$ 
Wqen  the  hell  appears  within, 

Caufing  bitter  anguifh ; 


24  HART>%  HTMNS* 

And  the  loathfome  ftench  of  fia 
Makes  thefpirits  languish. 

%  Now  the  heat  tdifclos'd  betrays 

Ail  it's  hiddiforders; 
Enmity  to  God's  right  ways, 

B'.afphemies  and  murders, 
Malice,  envy,  luft,  and  pride, 

Thoughts  obfeene  and  filthy; 
Sores  corrupt  and  putrify*d  ; 

No  part  found  or  healthy. 

4  All  things  to  promote  our  fall 

Shew  a  mighty  fitnefs  : 
Satan  will  accufe  withal, 

And  the  confeience  witnefs. 
Foes  within  and  foes  without, 

Wrath,  and  law,  and  terrors, 
Raih  preemption,  timid  doubt, 

Coldnefs,  deadnefs,«errors! 

4  Brethren,  in  a  Mate  fo  fad, 

When  temptations  feize  us, 
When  our  hearts  we  feel  thus  bz6* 

Let  us  look  to  Jefus. 
He  that  hung  upon  the  crofs, 

For  his  people  bleeding, 
Uow  in  heaven  fits  for  us 

Always  interceding. 

5  Vengeance,  when  the  Saviour  died, 
Quitted  the  believer  . 
Juftice  cried,  "  I'm  fatisfled, 

"  Now  henceforth  forever.'* 
//  isfinijh'dy  faid  the  Lord* 
In  his  dying  minute  £ 


HART's    HTMNS.  2j 

Holy  Ghoft,  repeat  that  word; 
Full  falvation's  in  it. 

Leprous  foul,  prefs  thro'  the  croud* 

In  thy  foul  condition; 
Struggle  hard,  and  call  aloud 

On  the  great  Phyfician. 
Wait  till  thy  difeafe  he  cleanfe, 

Begging,  trufting,  cleaving; 
When,  and  <where,  and  by  nuhat  meatifp 

T©  his  wifdom  leaving. 


XIX. 

Hitherto  hath  the  Lord  helped us.  I  Sam.  yiL  t%, 
j  '"THO'  ftrait  be  the  way, 
■*■     With  dangers  befet; 
And  we  thro'  delay 

Are  no  farther  yet. 
Our  good  Guide  and  Saviout 

Hath  helped  thus  far ; 
And  'tis  by  his  favor 
We  are  what  we  are. 

%  A  favor  {o  great 

We  highly  mould  prize; 
Not  murmur,  nor  fret, 

Nor  fmaJl  things  defpife. 
Butwhat  call  we  final!  things; 

Sin's  whole  canceled  furn? 
*Tis  greater  than  all  things—    ■ 
Except  thofe  to  come. 
g  My  brethren,  reflect 

Oawhat  we  have  been; 


25  HART*    HTMNS. 

How  God  had  refpecl: 

To  as  under  fin. 
When  lower  and  Jower 

We  ev>y  day  fell, 
Heftretch'd  forth  his  power, 

And  fnatch'd  us  from  heli. 

4  Then  let  us  rejoice, 

And  cheerfully  ring 
Wiih  hear,  and  with  voice, 

To  jtius  our  King; 
Who  thus  far  has  brought  us 

From  evil  to  good ; 
The  ranfom  that  bought  us 

No  lei's  than  his  blood. 

5  For  hidings  like  thefe 

So  bounteou'fly  giv'n, 
For  profpecls  of  peace, 

And  foretaftes  of  heav'n. 
*Tis  grateful,  'tis  pleafant 

To  finpf  and  adore; 
Be  thankful  foi  prefent 

And  then  afk  for  more. 


Blefsd  is  the  wan  that  endureth  tmptatlom 

James  \.  i%. 
A  ND  mud  it,  Lord  be  fo? 
**■   And  rauft  thy  children  bear 
Such  various  lands  of  woe, 
Such  foul-perplexing  fear? 
Are  thefe  the  bieffings  we  expecl? 
U  this  the  lot  of  God's  elecl? 


HART*    IITMNS.  *j 

Daily  we  groan  and  mourn, 

Beneath  the  weight  of  fin, 

We  pray  to  be  new-born, 

Bat  know  not  what  we  mean  • 
We  think  it  foniething  very  great, 
Something  that's  undifcover'd  yet, 

Boaft  not,  ye  fons  of  earth, 
Nor  look  with  fcornful  eyes: 
Above  your  higheft  mirth- 
Oar  faddeii  hoars  we  prize.  ^ 
For  tho'  our  cap  feems  nll'd  with  gall, 
There's  fomething  fecret  fweecens  alt. 

How  harfh  foe'er  the  way. 

Dear  Saviour,  ftill  jead  on; 

Nor  leave  us,  till  we  fay, 

"  Father  thy  will  be  done." 
At  mo  ft  we  do  but  tafte  the  cupj 
For  thou  alone  haft  drunk  it  up. 

:      Shall  guilty  man  complain  ? 
Shall  (Inful  dull  repine? 

what  is  all  our  pain, 
How  light,  compared  with  thine? 
Finifh,  dear  Lord,  what  is  begun: 
Chafe  thou  the  way,  but  ftili  lead  on. 


XXI. 
The  Wonders  of  redeeming  Love, 

i  TJOW  wondrous  are  the  works  of  God, 

Difplayed  through  ail  the  world  abroad! 
Immenfeiy  great!  Immenfeiy  fmall! 
Yet  one  ft'iange  work  exceeds  them  ail. 


28  HART*    HTMNS. 

1  He  form'd  the  fun,  fair  fount  of  light; 
The  moon  and  flars  to  rule  the  night: 
But  night,  and  ftars,  and  moon,  and  fun» 
Are  little  works  compar'd  with  one. 

j  He  roll'd  the  feas,  and  fpread  the  fkies; 
Made  vallies  fink,  and  mountains  rife; 
The  meadows  cioath'd  with  native  green; 
And  bad  the  risers  glide  between. 

4  But  what  are  feas,  or  fkies,  or  hills, 
Or  verdant  vales,  or  gliding  rills, 
To  wonders  man  was  born  to  prove  ? 
The  wonders  of  redeeming  love  ! 

5  *Tis  far  beyond  what  v/ords  exprefs, 
What  faints  can  feel  or  angels  guefs : 
Angels, that  hymn  the  great  I  AM, 
Fall  down  and  veil  before  the  Lamb. 

6  The  higheft  heav'ns  are  fhort  of  this  ; 
"Tis  deeper  than  the  vaft  abyfs: 

3Tis  more  than  thought  can  e'er  conceive, 
Or  hope  expect,  or  faith  believe. 

7  Almighty  God  HghVi  human  breath, 
The  Lord  of  life  expenenc'd  death  1 
How  it  was  done,  we  can't  cifcufs  ; 
But  this  we  know,  'twas  done  for  us. 

%  BleU  with  this  faith  then  let  us  raife 
Our  hearts  in  love,  our  voice  in  praife : 
All  things  to  us  muft  work  for  good, 
For  whom  the  Lord  hath  fhed  his  blood. 

9  Trials  may  prefs  of  ev'ry  fort; 
They  may  be  fore,  they  muft  be  fhort. 


HJR2"s    HTMNS.  29 

We  now  believe,  but  foon  fhall  viewy, 
The  greateil  glories  God  can  {hew. 


XXII. 
Whom  rejijl-jedfajl  in  the  Faith.    1  Pet.  7.  & 

IN  all  our  worft  affii&ions, 
When  furious  foes  furround  us; 
When  troubles  vex, 
And  fears  perplex, 
And  Satan  would  confound  us : 
When  foes  to  God  and  goodnefs 
We  find  ouifelves  by  feelings 
To  do  what's  right, 
Unable  quite, 
And  almoft  as  unwilling. 

When,  like  the  reftlefs  ocean.' 
Our  hearts  call  up  uncleannefs, 

Flood  after  flood, 

With  mire  and  mud  ; 
And  all  is  foul  within  us  ; 
When  love  is  cold  and  languid, 
And  difFrent  paffions  ftake  us| 

When  hope  decays, 

And  God  delays, 
And  feems  to  quite  forfake  us : 

Then  to  maintain  the  battle 
With  fold  ier  like  behavior, 

To  keep  the  field, 

And  never  yield, 
But  firmly  eye  the  Saviour : 
To  trull  his  gracious  promife, 


|o  JMRTs    HYMNS. 

Thus  hard  befet  with  evil  ; 

This  this  is  faith 

Will  conquer  Death, 
And  overcome  the  DevJ. 


XXIII. 

Cleaving  to  Christ. 

r  "BRETHREN,  let  us  praife  our  Lord: 
33  Exalt  his  bleiTed  name: 
Let  us  hear,  and  keep  his  word; 

His  glory  be  our  aim. 
Let  us  refolutely  ftrive 

To  woik  God's  work  with  full  intent. 
And  what  is  it?  To  believe 

On  him  whom  he  hath  fent. 

%  Faith  implanted  from  above, 

Will  prove  a  fertile  roct; 
Whence  will  fpring  a  tree  of  love 

Producing  precious  fruit. 
Tl  inds  the  boughs  deface? 

The  rooted  itock  {hall  ftill  remain  : 
Leaves  may  languid),  fruit  dccreafe  ; 

But  more  (hall  grow  again. 

3  Happy  fouls!  who  cleave  to  Chrift, 

By  pure  and  living  faith, 
Finding  him  their  king  and  pried, 

Tbeii  God  and      .    le  till  death. 
God's  own  foe  may  plague  his  fons; 

Sin  may  diftrefs,bat  not  fubdue. 
Chrift  who  conquerM^r  us  once, 

Will  in  us  conquer  too. 


HJRT's    HYMNS.  3$ 

xxiv: 

A  Dialogue  between  a  Believes 
and  his  Soul. 

I  Bel.    /^0ME,  my  foul,  and  let  us  try* 
Kjl  For  a  little  feafon, 
Ev'ry  burden  to  lay  by, 
Come  and  let  us  reafon, 

What  is  this  that  cafts  thee  down  ? 

Who  are  thofe  that  grieve  thee  ? 
Speak,  and  Set  theworft  be  known 

Speaking  may  relieve  thee. 

%  Soul.  Oh!  I  fink  beneath  the  load 

Cf  my  nature' *s  evil ; 
Full  of  enmity  to  God; 

Capth'd'by  the  Devils 
Refllefs  nsjthe  troubled  feast 

Feeb  e,  faint,  and  fearful ; 
Piagud  with  evrryjbre  difeaje9 

Hew  can  I  he  cheerful  ? 

I  Bel.   Think  on  what  thy  Saviour  bore, 

In  the  gloomy  garden, 
Sweating  blood  at  evVy  pore, 

To  procure  thy  pardon. 
See  bin)  ftretched  upon  the  weed, 

Bleeding,  grieving,  crying; 
SufFnng  all  the  wrath  of  God; 

Groaning,  gaffing,  dying! 

4  $qs\.  This  hj   ::>f    ome titties  view?  i 
\*ji#d\      rt *  views  relieve  me  : 
But  my  fins  return  ane*w  : 
Ihif  are  they  thai  grieve  me. 
%3 


3*  tfARfi    HTMNS. 

Oh  !  I'm  leprous,  /linking,  foa!t 
Quite  throughout  infecled. 

Have  not  I.  if  any  /bul, 
Caufetohedejecled? 

5  Bel,   Think  how  loud  thy  dying  Lord 

Cry M  out,  • «  //  isjinijh  'd . ; ' 
Treaiure  up  that  facred  woid 

Whole  and  undiminilh'd. 
J)oubt  not;  he  will  carry  on, 

To  its  full  perfection, 
That  good  work  he  has  be^un, 

Why  then  this  dejection? 

6  Soul.  Faith,  when  void  of  works  is  dead; 

This  tkefcriptures  nvitn*/}  .• 
/fnd  what  'works  have  1 to  plead \ 

Who  aw  all  unfitness  ? 
Jill  my  l-oavers  are  depraved. 

Blind,  perverje,  and  fit  hy  ; 
If  from  Death  I  m  fully fav'd, 

Why  am  I  not  healthy  ? 

1  Bel.   Pcre  not  on  thyfeif  too  long, 
Le(t  it  link  thee  lower. 
Look  to  Jefus  kind  as  ftrong, 
Mercy  joined  with  power. 
Ev'iv  work  that  thou  mufl  do 
Will  thy  gracious  Saviour 
For  thee  work,  and  in  thee  too, 
Of  iiis  fpecial  favor. 

§  Soul.  Jefu'sprechus  blood  once f pi  It, 
laependenfohfyt 
*fe  re  ea/e  andetear  ntfguiltg 
But  J  iveuld  6*  holy. 


HJRT%    HTMNS.  33 

Bel.   He  that  bought  thee  on  the  crofs 
Can  controul  thy  nature, 
Fuliy  purge  away  thy  drofs, 
Make  thee  a  new  creature. 

Soul.  That  he  can  I  nothing  doubt, 

Be  it  but  his  pteafure. 
BeL    Though  it  be  not  done  throughout. 

May  it  not  in  meafure? 
Soul.  When  that  meafure,  far  from  great, 

Still  jh  all feem  decreasing— 
BeL  Faint  not  then  ;  but  pray,  and  wait, 

Never,  never  cea£og. 

10  Soul.  What  <when prayer  meets  ne  regard? 
Bel.  Still  reneat  it  often. 
Soul.  But  I  feel  myfelffe  hard— 
Be/.    Jefus  will  thee  iofren. 
Soul.  But  my  enemies 'make  bead* 
BeL    Let  them  clofer  drive  thee. 
Sou!.  But  I'm  cold,  I'm  dark,  I'm  dead, 
BeL   Jefus  will  revive  thee. 


XXV. 

Christ  thi  Believer's  Surety* 

t  "I^FHAT  ilavim  fears  moieir  my  mind, 
And  vex  my  fickiy  foul  ? 
How  is  it,  Lord,  that  thou  art  kind, 
And  yet  I  am  not  whole? 

6  Ah!  why  mould  unbelief  and  prid?? 
With  ail  their  hellifh  train, 
Still  in  my  ranfom'd  foul  abide* 
And  give  me  all  this  pam  \ 


34.  HART* i    HTMNS. 

3  Thy  word  is  paft,  thy  promife  made; 

With  pow'r  it  came  from  heav'n. 
"  pheer  up  dtiponding  foul  (itfaid) 
"  Thy  fins  are  all  forgiv'n- 

4  "  Behold  I  make  thy  caufe  my  own  ; 

"  I  bought  thee  with  my  blood: 
**  Thy  wicked  works  on  me  be  thrown, 
"  And  I  will  work  thy  good. 

5  "  lam  thy  God,  thy  guide 'till  death, 

i'   \  hineeverlafting  friend* 
•'  On  me  for  love,  for  works,  for  faith, 
"  On  me  for  all  depend. 

6  Thy  blood,  dear  Lord,  has  bought  my  peace, 

And  paid  the  heavy  debt; 
Has  gi'/'n  a  fair  and  full  releafe 
But  I'm  in  priibn  yet. 

7  Unj'iftlv  now  thefe  foes  of  mine 

Their  dev'iifh  hate  per  foe: 
They  made  my  fureiy  pay  the  fine, 
Yet  plague  the  prjs'ner  too. 

g  What  right  can  my  tormenters  plead, 
That  I  fliould  not  be  free? 
Here's  an  amazing  change  indeed! 
Juftice  ia  now  for  me. 

9  Lord,  break  thefe  bars  that  thus  confiae* 
Thefe  chains  that  gail  mefo, 
Say  to  that  ugiy  jailer,  Sin, 
"  Lco/e  bint)  and  let  himrc?* 


HJRT's    HYMNS.  tf 

XXVI. 

The  narrow  Way, 

Part  I, 

Y^TIDE  is  the  gate  of  death ; 
*  *    The  way  is^ large  and  broads 
And  many  enter  in  thereat, 
And  walk  that  beaten  road. 

%  Eecaule  the  gate  of  life 

Is  narrow,  low,  and  fmall ; 
The  path  fo  preft,  fo  clefs,  fo  drait^ 
There  feems  no  path  \\  all. 

This  way*  that's  found  by  few, 

Ten  thoufand  fnares  heiei, 
To  turn  the  feekePs  iteps  afide, 

And  trap  the  trav'ler's  feet. 

4  Before  we've  journey'd  far, 

Two  dang'rous  guiphs  are  fixt* 
Deadiloth  and  Pharifaic  pride,:- 
Scarce  a  hair's  breadth  betwixt. 

5  Falie  lights  delude  the  eyes, 

And  iead  the  fteps  aftray  : 
That  traveler  treads  the  fm eft  here* 
That  ieldorn  fees  his  way. 

6  Guides  cry,  lo  here  I  lo  there! 

On  this,  on  that  fide  keep  : 
Some  over-drive,  fome  frighten  back3 
And  others  lull  to  ileep. 

q  On  the  left  hand,  and  right, 

Ciofe  cragged  rocks  are  feen? 
B4 


s* 


HART'i    HTMNS. 


Diftruft  and  fe IF- wrought  confidence, 
'Tis  hard  tofqueeze  betwetfi. 

8  Sometimes  we  feem  to  pain 

Great  lengths  of  ground  by  day; 
But  find,  alas!  when  night  comes  on, 
We  quite  miftook  the  way. 

g  Sometimes  we  have  no  ftrength, 
Sometimes  we  want  the  will ; 
And  fometim.es,  left  we  might  go  wrongj 
We  chufe  to  frand  quite  itill. 

10  Again,  tkro' heedlefs.haite, 
We  catch  fome  dang'rous  fall- 
Then  fearing  we  may  move  too  fail, 
We  hardly  move  at  all. 

ir  Deep  quagmires  choakthe  way, 
Corruptions  foul  and  thick! 
Whofe  ftench  infecls  the  air,  and  makes 
The'ftrongeft  trav'ler  fick. 

Si  Thro'  thefe  we  long  mufl  wade, 
And  oft  ilick  faft  in  mire. 
Kow  htat  confnmes — now  froft  benumbs 
As  dang'rousas  thefire. 

x5  Spectres  of  various  forms 
Allure,  enchant,  affright, 
fcrefumption  tempts  us  ev'ry  day, 
Defpair  aflaults  by  night. 

?4  Companions  if  we  find, 

Alas !  how  foon  they're  gone! 
For  'tis  decreed  that  mod  maft  pais 
The  darkeft  paths  alone. 


KJRT's    HYMNS.  37 

[5  Diftreftonev'ry  fide 
With  evils  felt  orfear'd, 
We  pray,  we  cry,  but  cannot  find 
That  prayers  or  cries  are  heard. 

6  Thickets  of  bri'rs  and  thorns 

Our  feeble  feet  enclofe; 
And  ev'ry  ftep  we  take  betrays 
New  dangers,  and  new  foes. 

7  When  all  thefe  foes  are  quell'd, 

And  ev'ry  danger  paft; 
That  ghaftly  phantom  death  remain?* 
To  combat  with  at  laft. 


Part  II. 

IF  this  be,  Lord,  thy  way, 
Then  who  can  hope  to  gain 
That  prize  fuch  numbers  never  feek, 
Such  numbers  feek  in  vain? 

a  »Tis  thine  almighty  grace, 
That  can  fumce  alone; 
Thou  giv'ft  us  ftrength  to  run  the  race, 
And  then  beftow'it  the  crown. 

3  Cheer  up,  ye  trav'ling  fouls, 

On  Jefu's  aid  rely: 
He  fees  us  when  we  fee  not  him, 
And  always  hears  our  cry. 

4  Without  ce(Tation  pray, 

Your  pray'rs  will  not  prove  vain; 
Our  Jofepb  turns  afide  to  weep, 
But  cannot  long  refrain. 


35  HJRT's    HTMNS. 

5  Sudden  he  (lands  confeft — 

We  look,  and  all  is  light; 
The  foe  confounded,  fwift  as  thought 
Sneaks  off,  and  ffculks  from  fight. 

6  His  prefence  dears  the  foul, 

And  fmooths  the  rugged  way; 
lie  often  makes  the  crooked  fhait, 
And  turns  the  night  to  day. 

7  We  then  move  cheerful  on, 

The  ground  feels  firm  and  good: 
And  ieaft  we  mould  miftake  the  \vay> 
He  lines  it  out  with  blood. 

2  Again  we  cannot  fee 

His  helping  hand — but  feel: 
And  though  we  neither  feel  nor  fee; 
His  hand  fuftains  us  ftill. 

9  He  gently  leads  us  on — 
Protects  from  fatal  harms ; 
And  when  we  faint,  and  cannot  walk, 
He  bears  us  in  his  arms. 

io  He  guides  and  moves  ourfteps; 

For  tho'wf  feemto  move, 

His  Spirit  ail  the  motion  gives 

By  fprings  of  fear  and  love. 

Si  The  meek  with  love  he  draws, 
Reflrains  the  rafti  by  fear; 
Searches  and  finds  the  wand'ring  out. 
And  brings  the  diftant  near. 

iz  When  for  a  time  we  ftcp, 
Perplext  and  at  a  lofs, 
He  like  a  beacon  en  a  hill 
Creels  his  bloody  profs* 


HJRT's    HTMNS. 

I3  Forward  again  weprefsj 

r^nd  while  that  mark's  in  view, 

I  Tho'  hofts  of  ices  belet  the  way, 
We  boldly  venture  thro*. 

[4  When  all  thefe  foes  are  queil'd, 
And  ev'ry  danger  pad : 
Tho'  death  remains,  he  but  remains 
To  be  fubdu'd  the  laft. 


m 


XXVII. 
The  Author's  own  Confession 

/~»GME  hither,  ye  that  fear  the  Lord, 
^  Drfciples  of  God's  fuff  ring  Son'j 
Let  me  relate,  and  you  record, 
What  he  for  my  poor  foul  has  done. 

The  way  of  truth  I  quickly  m'nVd, 
And  further  fbay'd,  and  further  ftiil: 
Expected  to  befav'd  by  Chiift, 
But  to  be  holy  had  no  will. 

The  road  of  death  with  rafti  career 
I  ran— aiiq  gloried  in  my  ihame; 
Abus'd  his  grace,  dzfpiUd  his  fear, 
And  others  taught  to  do  the  fame. 

Far,  far  from  home  on  hoiks  I  fed, 
Puftup  with  eachfantaftic  whim, 
With  fwine  a  beaftly  life  I  led, 
And  ferv'd  God's  foe  inftead  of  him? 

A  forward  fool,  a  willing  drisdge, 
I  a&ed  for  the  prince  of  hell ; 


0  HJRT's    lirMtfS. 

Did  all  he  bad  without  a  grudge, 
And  boafted  I  could  fin  fo  well. 

6  Bold  blafphemies  emp'oy'd  my  tongue* 
I  heeded  not  my  heart  unclean; 

Loft  all  regard  of  right  or  wrong, 
In  thought,  in  word,  in  act,  obicene. 

7  My  body  wai  with  luft  defil'd, 
My  foul  J  pamper'd  up  in  pride: 
Could  (it  and  hear  the  Lord  rcvW'dp 
The  Saviour  of  mankind  deny'd. 

8  I  ftrore  to  make  my  flefh  decay 
With  foul  difeafe,  and  wading  pain: 
I  ftrove  to  fling  my  life  away, 

And  damn  my  foaJ — but  firove  in  rain. 

9  The  Lord,  from  whom  I  long  backflid, 
Firft  check' d  me  with  fome  gentle  flings  J 
Turn'd  on  me,  look'd,  and  foftlychid, 
And  bid  me  hope  for  greater  things. 

io  Soon  to  his  bar  he  made  me  come 
Arraign'd,  convicted,  caft,  J  flood, 
Expeclmg  from  his  mouth  the  doom 
Of  thofe,  who  trample  on  his  blood. 

ji  Pangs  of  remorfe  my  confcience  tore* 
Bell  cpenM  hideous  to  my  view, 
And  what  I  only  heard  before, 
I  found  by  Ud  experience  true. 

II  Oh!  wh^t  a  difmal  ftate  was  this-* 
What  horrors  (hook  my  feeble  frame! 
But,  brethren,  furely  you  can  guefs: 
For  you,  perhaps,  have  felt  the  fame. 


HdRT's    HTMNS.  /i 

X  l  But  O  the  goodnefs  of  our  God ! 
What  pity  melts  his  tender  heart! 
He  faw  me  wek'ring  in  my  blood, 
And  came,  and  eas'd  me  of  my  fmart. 

14  While  I  was  yet  a  great  way  olF, 
He  ran,  and  on  my  neck  he  fell: 
My  <bort  diftrcis  he  judg'd  enough, 
And  fnatcii'd  me  from  the  brink  of  hell. 

l$  What  an  amazing  change  was  here! 
I  looje'd  for  hell— he  brought  me  heaven. 
Cheer  up,  faid  he,  difmiis  thy  fear- 
Cheer  up,  thy  fins  are  all  forgiv'n. 

x6  I  would  objecl— but  fafter  much 

He  anfwer'd  peace.  What  me?—  Yes  thee? 
But  my  enormous  crimes  are  fuch — 
1  give  thee  pardon  full  and  free  I 

I  j  Bat  for  the  future,  Lord— /  am 
Thy  great  fahaticn—perfecl,  <who!e. 
Behold  !  thy  bad  works Jhatl  not  damn^ 
Nor  can  thy  goad  works  fave  thy  fetid. 

I  %  Renounce  thsm  loth.  Myfdf  alone 
Will  (or  tiee  nvork,  and  in  thee  too. 
Henceforth  I  wake  thy  caufe  my  onvn9 
And  undertake  to  bring  thee  through ,=■ 

S9  He  faid.  I  took  the  full  releafe. 
The  Lord  had  fign'd  it  with  his  blood. 
My  horrors  tied,  and  perfeel  peace 
And  joy  unfpeakable  enfu'd, 

so  I  only  begg'd  one  humble  boon  ; 
(Nor-did  the  Lord  offended  feeai) 


p  mJRT*i    HYMNS* 

Some  fervice  might  by  me  be  done 
To  fouls  ttfat  truly  truft  in  him. 

ai  Thus  I,  who  lately  had  been  eafi, 
And  fear'd  ajuft  but  heavy  doom, 
ReceivM  a  pardon  for  the  paft, 
A  promife  for  the  time  to  come. 

*2 .  This  promife  of  I  caTl  to  mind. 
As  thro'  iome  painful  paths  I  go, 
And  fecret  confoiation  find> 
And  ftrength  to  fight  with  ev'ry  foe. 

33  And  cft-tim?s,  when  the  terrier  fly 
Affirms  it  fancied,  iorg'd,  or  vain, 
Jefus  appears,  difprovesthe  he, 
And  jkjjzdly  makes  ito'tr  again. 


Corruptions. 

t   rT*HE  Lord  afnir'd  the  chofen  race, 
*■     From  Egypt's  bondage  brought, 
Thpy  fnoold  obrain  the  prcmis'd  pbice. 
And  find  the  reft  they  fought. 

a  Strong  nations  now  po(Tef*  the  land, 
Yet  yield  not  thou  to  doubt ; 
With  arm  out  (tretch'd,  and  mighty  hand, 
Thy  God  mail  drive  them  out. 

t  :-H  at  once— for  fearjhou  find 
The  rav'nous  beads  of  • 
Rifing  upon  thee  from  behind, 

As  dar^rousloes  as  ihcy. 


HJRT't  HTMNS.  *£ 

4  By  little  by  and  little,  he 

Will  chace  them  from  thy  fight. 
Believers  are  not  call  d,  we  ice, 
To  ileep  or  play3  but  fijghu 

^  Spiritual  pride,  that  rampant  beaft, 
Would  rear  its  haughty  head  : 
True  faith  would  loon  be  difpoileft, 
And  careleffneis  iucceed. 

6  Corruptions  make  the  mourners  fliun 
Presumption's  dangerous  fnare  ; 
Force  us  to  truft  to  Chriil  alone, 
And  fly  to  God  by  prayer. 

■7  By  them  we  fee!  how  low  we're  loft, 
And  learn  in  Tome  degree, 
How  dear  that  gfefct  faivaticn  cofc, 
Which  comes  to  us  ib  fi  ee. 

%  If  fnch  a  weight  to  every  foul 
Of  fin  and  forrow  fall  ; 
What  love  was  that  which  took  the  whole  2 
And  freely  bore  jt  ail  1 

9  C,  when  will  Go:I  our  "oy  complete, 
And  make  aa  end. of  tin  ! 
When  (hail  we  wrafk  rhe  -and,  and  meet 
No  Canaanite  therein  ? 

%j  Will  this  precede  the  day  of  death  ? 
Or  mv.it  we  wait  till  then  ? 
Ye  draggling  fouis,  he  ftrong  in  faith, 
And  quit  yourfeivcs  Hhe  men. 

Si  Our  dear  deliverer's  rove  Is  fach, 
H  -  can*  n  leiig  dslaf; 
C 


4$  XJRT's   HTMNS. 

Mean  time  that  foe  can't  boaft  of  much. 
Who  makes  us  watch  and  pray. 


XXIX. 
The  Paradox. 

i  T_T  ow  Grange  is  the  courfe  that  a-  Chriftia* 

Jil         muft  fleer? 

How  perptext  is  the  path  he  muft  tread  ? 
The  hope  of  his  happinefs  rifes  from  fear  ; 

And  his  life  he  receives  from  the  head. 

a  H13  faireft  pretentions  muft  wholly  be  wav'd> 

And  his  beffc  refolutious  be  croft  : 
Kor  can  he  expect  to  be  perfectly  fav'd, 

'Till  he  finds  himfeif  utterly  loft. 

3  When  ail  this  is  done,  and  his  heart  is  afTur'd 

Of  the  total  remifEon  of  fins  : 
When  his  pardon  is  fign'd,  and  his  peace  is  pro* 
cur'd, 

From  that  moment  his  conflict  begins. 


XXX. 

Stand  ftill 'and  fee  the  Salvation  of  the  Lord. 

Exodus  xiv.  13. 

I  /^\H  !  what  a  narrow,  narrow  path 
\_)  Is  that  which  leads  to  life  ! 
Some  talk  of  works,  and  fome  of  frith, 
With  warmth,  and  zeal,  and  ilrife. 


HJRT's  HTMNS.  45 

9  But  after  all  that's  faid  or  done. 
Let  men  think  what  they  will, 
The  ftrength  of  every  tempted  £oQ 
Confifb  in  (landing  ftill, 

3  "  Stand  flill !  fays  one.    That's  eafy  fare  $ 

tf  'Tis  what  I  always  do/' 
De'uded  foul,  be  notfecure  ; 
This  is  not  meant  to  you. 

4  Not  driven  by  fear,  nor  drawn  by  Iove3 

Nor  yet  by  duty  led. 
Lie  fti!!  you  do,  and  never  move ; 
For  who  can  move  that's  dead  P 

j  But  for  a  living  foul  to  £tand, 
By  thoufand  dangers  fcar'd  : 
And' feel  deftruclion  clofe  at  hand* 
O  I  this  indeed  is  hard  1 

I  To  fhun  th'"s  danger,  others  run 
To  hide  they  know  not  where  : 
Or  though  they  fight,  no  viel'ry's  won  $ 
They  only  beat  the  air. 

?  He  that  believes,  the  fcripture  fays> 
Shall  not  confus'dly  haile: 
Thus  danger  threats  both  him  that  flays* 
And  him  that  runs  too  fall. 

%  Hafte  grafps  at  all  ;  but  nothing  keeps  J 
Sloth  is  a  dangerous  ftate  : 
And  he  that  flies,  and  he  that  fieeps, 
Cannot  be  laid  to  wait. 

4  Lord,  let  thy  Spirit  prompt  us  whca 
To  go,  and  when  to  Hay; 


4#  JIJRT's   Hl'MNS. 

At^ratf  us  with  the  cords  of  men, 
And  we  (hall  not  delay. 

jo  Give  power  and  will ;  and  then  command 
And  we  will  follow  thee  : 
And  when  we're  frightened,  feid  us  {land, 
And  thy  falvation  fee. 


VYVT 
AAA1. 

The  Sabbath. 

I  ^N  OD  thus  commanded  Jacob's  feed, 
vJT  When,  from  Egyptian  bondage  freed, 

He  led  them  oy  the  way. 
Remember  with  a  mighty  hand 
I  brought  thee  fonh  from  Pharaoh's  land  ; 

Then  keep  my  Sabbath-day. 

a  In  fix  days  God  made  heaven  and  earth  ; 
Gave  all  the  various  creatures  birth  : 

And  from  his  working  ceas'd. 
Thefe  days  to  labor  he  aoplied  ; 
The  feventh  blefs'd  and  fan&iiicd, 

And  caii'd  the  day  of  reit. 

3  To  ail  God's  people  now  remains 
A  SaVbatifm,  a  reft  from  pains 

And  works  of  flayifh  kind. 
When  tir'd  with  toil,  and  faint  through  fear, 
The  child  of  God  can  enter  here, 

And  i'weet  refrefhment  find, 

4  To  this  by  faith  he  oft  retreats. 
Bondage  and  labor  quite  forgets, 

And  ukirihis  care?  adieu  j 


HJRT's   HTMNS.  4? 

Slides  fofcly  into  pfomis'd  refr, 
Reclines  his  head  on  Jefu's  breaifj 
And  proves  the  Sabbath  true. 

THis.  and  this  only,  is  the  way, 
To  rightly  keep  that  Sabbath-da}^ 

Which  God  has  holy  made. 
AH  keepers,  that  come  mort  of  this, 
The  fubftance  of  the  Sabbath  mifs  5 

And  graip  an  empty  (hade. 


XXXII. 

Who  hath  defpifed  the  day  of/mall  things  ? 
Zech.  iy.  io. 

E  ''pHE  Lord  that  made  both  heaven  and  earth* 
And  was  himfelf  made  man, 
Lay  in  the  womb  before  his  birth, 
Contracted  to  a  fpan  ; 

a  Matur'd  by  time  'till  forth  he  came, 

A  babe  like  others  feen  ;  ; 

As  fmall  in  fize,  and  weak  of  frames 
As  babes  have  always  been. 

3  From  thence  he  grew  an  infant  mild., 

By  fair  and  due  degrees  ; 
And  then  became  a  bigger  child, 

And  fat  on  Mary's  knees.  s 

4  At  firS:  held  up,  for  want  of  flrength  ; 

In  time  alone  he  ran  : 
Then  grew  a  boy :  a  lad  ;  at  length 
A  youth  ;  at  laft  a  man. 


4*  ft  Jit9  •   HYMNS. 

5  Behold  from  what  beginnings  fmall 

Our  great  falvation  rofe  ! 
The  ftrength  of  God  is  own'd  by  alh 
Bat  who  his  weaknefs  knows  ? 

6  Thus  fouls  that  would  to  heaven  attain, 

Mud  Jacob's  ladder  climb; 
And  flep  by  ftep  the  fummit  gain, 
In  meafare,  and  in  time. 

f  Let  not  theflrong  the  weak  defpife  ; 
Their  faith,  though  fmall*  is  true  : 
Though  low  they  feem  in  others'  eyeSj 
Their  Saviour  feera'd  fo  too. 

3  Nor  meanly  of  the  tempted  think  % 
For  O  what  tongue  can  tell. 
How  low  the  Lord  of  life  muft  fink* 
Before  he  vanquiih'd  hell  1 

£  The  lead  believer  is  a  faint  : 
And  if  our  growth  be  flow, 
We  fnould  not  therefore  tire  and  faint  | 
Since  Chrift  himfelf  could  grow. 

le  As  in  the  days  of  flefli  he  grew, 
In  wifdom,  fbCtuft,  grace  ; 
So  in  the  foai  that's  born  anew, 
He  keeps  a  gradual  pace. 

CI  No  Iefs  Almighty  at  his  birth, 
Than  on  his  throne  fupreme  : 
His  moulders  held  up  heaven  and  carth| 
When  Mary  held  up  him. 


XXXIII. 

Holy  Days, 

2  gOME  Chriftians  to  the  Lord  regard  a  day, 
And  others  to  the  Lord  regard  it  not. 
Now  tho'  thefe  feem  to  choofe  a  different  way, 
Yet  both  at  laft  to  one  iame  point  are  brought. 

%  He  that  regards  the  day  will  reafon  thus  :  .' 
"  This  glorious  day  our  Saviour  and  our  King 
"  Perfomrd  fome  mighty  act  of  love  for  us  : 
'*  Obferve  the  time  in  memory  of  the  thing. 

5  Thus  he  to  Jefus  points  his  kind  intent : 
And  offers  prayers  and  praiies  in  his  name  : 
As  to  the  Lord  alone  his  love  is  meant, 

The  Lord  accepts  it.  And  who  dares  to  blame- 

4  For  tho*  the  (hell  indeed  is  not  the  meat ; 
'Tis  not  rejected  when  the  meat's  withia  ; 
ThoJ  fuperllition  is  a  vain  conceit  ; 
Commemoration  furely  is  no  {in. 

g  Ke  alfo  that  to  days  has  no  regard, 

The  (hadows  only  for  the  Jubilance  quits; 
Towards  the  Saviour's  prefence  prefles  hard; 
And  outward  things  thro' eagernefs  omits. 

6  For  warmly  to  himfelf  he  thus  reflects, 

*  My  Lord  alone  I  count  my  chiefeft  good, 
"  All  empty  forms  my  craving  foul  rejects  ; 
*{  And  fecks  the  folid  riches  of  his  blood. 

f  u  All  days  and  times  I  place  my  fole  delight 
"  la  Him  the  only  object  of  my  care. 


50  HJRT's   HTMNS. 

"  External  (hews  for  his  dear  fake  I  flight ; 
"  Left  ought  but  Jefus  my  refpecl  mould  (hare." 

8  Let  not  the  obferver  therefore  entertain 
Agamfthis  brother  any  fee  ret"  grudge  : 
Nor  let  '.he  non  obferver  call  him  vain  ; 
But  ufe  his  freedom,  and  forbear  to  judge. 

9  Thus  both  may  brmg  their  motives  to  the  teft. 
Our  condefcending  Lord  wiiJ  both  approve. 
Ln  each  purfue  the  way  that  iikes  him  beH  : 
He  cannot  walk  amifs,  that  walks  in  love. 


XXXIX. 

Good-Friday, 

t  f\&}-  vynat  *&&  an^  doleful  night 
KJ  Preceded  that  day's  morn  ! 
When  darknefs  feiz'd  the  Lord  of  light, 
And  iin  by  Chrilt  was  borne  ? 

a  Wli-n  our  intolerable  load 
Upon  hU  foal  was  laid  ; 
And  the  vindictive  wrath  of  God 
Fiam'd  furious  on  his  head  ! 

3  We  in  our  conqu'ror  well  may  hoaft  ; 

For  none  but  God  alone. 
Can  know  how  dear  the  vicYry  coft, 
Mow  hardly  it  was  won. 

4  Forth  from  the  garden, fully  tried, 

Our  bruifed  champion  carxi?, 
To  fuffer  what  remained  belide 
Of  pain,  and  grief,  and  ihaa:e. 


'HART 9   HTMNS.  $$ 

i  Mock'd,  fpit  upon,  and  crown'd  with  thorns* 
Afpeclaclehe  flood; 
His  back  with  fcourges  lafh'd  and  torn, 
A  victim  bathM  in  biood  ! 

6  Nail'd  to  the  crcfs  thro*  hands  and  feets 
He  hung  in  open  view  : 
To  make  his  forrows  quite  complete, 
By  God  deferted  too. 

j  Thro'  nature's  works  the  woes  he  felt 
With  ibft  infection  ran  : 
The  bardeft.  things  could  break  or  melt* 
Except  the  heart  of  man. 

$  This  day  before  thee,  Lord,  we  come  ? 
Oh  I  melt  our  hearts,  or  break  : 
For  mould  we  now  continue  dumb, 
The  very  itones  would  fpeak. 

9  True,  thou  haft  paid  the  heavy  debti 
And  made  believers  clean  : 
But  he  knows  nothing  of  it  yet, 
Who  is  not  griev'd  at  fin.  • 

xo  A  faithful  friend  of  grief  partakes, 
But  union  can  be  none 
Betwixt  a  heart  like  melting  nvax,  * 
And  hearts  as  hard  as  Hone  ; 

II  Betwixt  a  head  difFufing  blood. 
And  members  found  and  whole  5 
Betwixt  an  agonizing  God, 
And  an  unfeeling  foul. 

%z  Lord  my  iong'd  happinefs  is  full 
When  I  can  go  with  thee 

*  Pfalm  ssii.  14, 


5*  HART's  HTMNS* 

To  Golgotha  :  the  place  efjkull 
Is  heaven  on  earth  to  me. 


XXXV. 

Another, 

I  'TPHAT  day  when  Chrift  was  crucified* 
X  The  mighty  God  Jehovah  died 

An  ignominious  death. 
He  that  would  keep  this  folemn  day 
(And  truedifciples  fafely  may) 
Mufl  keep  it  firm  in  faith. 

&  For  tho'  the  mournful  tragedy 
May  call  up  tears  in  every  eye  ; 

Yet  brethren  reft  not  here. 
Would  you  condole  your  dying  frierid  \ 
Let  each  into  his  foul  defcend, 

And  find  his  Saviour  there. 

3  This  only  can  our  hearts  afTure, 
And  make  our  outward  worlhip  pure> 

In  God's  all-fearching  fight. 
When  all  we  do  with  love  is  mixt, 
And  ftedfafl  faith  on  Jefus  fixt, 
My  brethren,  then  we're  right, 


XXXVI. 

Another. 

r  f^i  OME,  poor  (inners,  come  away  j 
V>4  In  meditation  fweet, 
Let  us  go  to  Golgotha, 
And  kifs  our  Saviour's  feet, 


ITJRT's   HTMNS. 

Let  us  in  his  wounded  fide 

Wa!h,  'till  we  every  whit  are  clean ; 
That's  the  fountain  open'd  wide 

For  fiithinefs  andfm. 

£  Zion's  mourners  ceafe  your  fear  5 

For  lo !  the  dying  Lamb 
Utterly  forbids  defpair 

To  all  that  love  hi*  name. 
Him  your  fellow  fufferer  lee  ; 

He  was  in  ail  things  like  to  you  ; 
Are  you  tempted  ?  So  was  he. 

Deferted  ?  He  was  too. 

£  Jefas,  our  Redeemer,  fned 

For  ifs  his  vital  blood. 
We,  through  our  vi*5lorious  Head,  ' 

Can  now  come  near  to  God. 
Sin  and  forrow  may  diftrefs, 

But  neither  mall  us  quite,  controul  ; 
Chrifc  has  purchas'd  holmeis 

For  every  fin-lick  foul. 


XXXVII. 

Perseverance. 

I  ^TpHE  Saner  that  by  precious  faith 
Has  felt  his  (ins  forgiven, 
Is  from  that  moment  pais'd  from  death, 
And  feal'd  an  heir  of  heaven. 

fe  Tho'  thoufand  fnares  enclofe  his  feet, 
Not  one  (hall  hold  him  Faft. 
Whatever  dangers  he  may  meet, 
HemaligetlafeatlaiL 


54  HJRT's   HTMNS, 

l  Not  as  the  world  the  Saviour  gives, 
He  is  no  fickle  friend  : 
Whom  once  he  loves,  he  never  Ieavts, 
Eut  ioves  him  to  the  end. 

4  The  Spir'ttha-t  would  this  truth  withftand, 

Wouid  pull  God's  temple  dawn, 
Wreft  Jefu'r  fceptre  from  his  hand, 
And  fpoilhim  of  his  crown. 

5  Satan  might  then  full  viclory  boaft  ; 

The  church  might  wholly  fail : 
If  one  believer  may  be  loir, 
It  follows,  fo  may  all. 

6  But  Chrift  in  every  age  has  proved 

His  purchafe  firm  and  tvue. 
If  this  foundation  be  remov'd, 
What  fliall  the  righteous  do  ? 

7  Brethren  by  this  your  claim  abide, 

This  title  to  your  blifs  : 
Whatever  lofs  you  bear  befide,. 
O!  never  give  up  this. 


XXXVIII. 

This  it  a  faithful  faying,  and 'worthy  ofallnceep* 
tatio  fa •  Chrijl  cams  into  the  world  t* 

favejktners.     I  Tim.  i.  15. 

1  TTTHEN  Adam  by  tranfgreflion  fell, 
VV    And  confcious  fled  his  Maker's  face> 
LinkM  in  clandeflir.e  league  with  hell> 
He  tuin'd  all  his  future  race. 


HTMNS,  5* 

The  feeds  of  evil  once  brought  in, 
Increase  and  rlli'd  the  world  with  fin. 

'%  This  lurking  leaven  ferments  the  mafs. 

All  nature's  fickj  creation's  fpoii'd  $ 
E?ch  fin  infected  (ire,  alas  i 

Begets  a  fin-infe&ed  child. 
Thus  propagation  fpreads  the  curfe  ; 
And  man,  born  bad,  grows  worfe  and  worfe, 

3  But  Io,  the  fecond  Adam  came, 

The  ferpeot's  fubtle  head  to  bruife, 
He  cancels  his  malicious  claim, 

And  disappoints  his  deviliih  views  ; 
Rarrfoms  poor  prisoners  with  his  blood, 
And  brings  the  finnei  back  to  God. 

4  To  underhand  thefe  terms  aright. 

This  grand  diitinclion  mould  be  known  1 
Tho'  all  are  finners  in  God's  fight. 

There  are  but  few  fo  in  their  o<wn. 
To  fuch  as  tbefe  our  Lord  was  fent ; 
They're  only  finners,  who  repent. 

5  What  comfort  can  a  Saviour  bring 

To  thofe  who  never  felt  their  woe  ? 
A  linner  is  a  facred  thing  ; 

The  Holy  Ghofl  has  made  him  fb. 
New  life  from  him  we  rauit  receive9 
Before  for  fm  we  rightly  grieve. 

6  Let  the  felf-righteou.3  hence  beware, 

Left  he  this  great  ialvauon  fcorn. 
Let  every  carelefs  foul  take  care  ; 

For  they  that  laugh  mail  one  day  mourn. 
High-flying  lights,  learn  hence  to  {loop  j 
Dry  knowledge  only  puss  men  ap. 


|3F  HJZT's  HTMNS. 

1  This  faithful  faying  let  us  own, 
( Well  worthy  'tis  to  be  believ'd) 
That  Chrift  into  the  world  came  down, 
That  Ji>tners  might  by  him  be  fav'd. 
Sinners  are  high  in  his  efteem  j 
And  tinners  highly  value  him. 


XXXIX. 
The  Sinner's  Hope. 

COME  ye.  humble  (inner  train, 
Souls  for  whom  the  Lamb  was  flain, 
Chearfui  let  us  raife  our  voice : 
We  have  reafon  to  rejoice. 
Let  us  fmg,  with  faints  in  heav'n, 
Life  reftor'd,  and  fins  forgiv'n. 
Glory  and  eternal  laud 
Be  to  our  incarnate  God. 

Now  look  up  with  faith,  and  fee 
Him  that  bled  for  you  and  me, 
Seated  on  his  glorious  throne, 
Interceding  for  his  own. 
What  can  Chriftians  have  to  fear 
When  they  view  their  Saviour  there  ? 
Hell  is  vanquiuVd,  heav'n  appeas'd  ; 
God  is  reconcil'dand  pleas'd. 

Snares  and  dangers  may  befet, 
For  we  are  but  trav'lers  yet. 
As  the  way  indeed  is  hard, 
Let  us  keep  a  conftant  guard  ; 
f-Jeither  lifted  up  with  air, 
Hor  dejected  to  delpair : 


BJRT's  HTMNS. 

Always  keeping  Chrifl:  in  view  ; 
He  will  bring  us  fefely  through. 


XL. 

The  Werldby  Wifdsm  knew  not  Goi, 
i  Cor.  i.  ar. 

t  (~\  Ye  fons  of  men  be  wife  ; 

KJ  Trull  no  longer  dreams  and  lies* 
Out  of  Chrift,  Almighty  power 
Can  do  nothing  but  devour. 

%  God  you  fay  is  good.    'Tis  true  3 
But  he's  pure  and  holy  too-: 
Jutland  jealous  in  his  ire, 
Burning  with  vindi&ive  fire. 

3  This  of  old  himfelf  declar'd  : 
Jfrael  trembled  when  they,  heard  5 
But  the  proof  of  proofs  indeed 

Is,  he  fent  his  Son  to  bleed.  ^ 

4  When  the  blefied  jefus  died3 
God  was  cleariy  juftihed  : 
Sin  to  pardon  without  blood, 
Kever  in  his  nature  flood, 

j  Worship  God  then  in  his  Son  ; 
There  he's  iove,  and  there  alone. 
Think  not  that  he  will  or  may 
Pardon  any  other  way. 

§  See  the  fufTring  Son  of  God, 
Panting!  groaning!  fweating  blood  1 
Brethren,  this  had  never  been? 
Had  not  God  detefted  fin. 


58  HARTs   HTMNS^ 

7  Be  his  mercy  therefore  fought 
In  the  way  himfelf  has  taught. 
There  his  clemency  is  fuch, 
We  can  never  truil  too  much. 

S  He  that  better  knows  than  we, 
Bids  us  all  to  Jefus  flee. 
Humbly  take  him  at  his  word, 
And  your  fouls  /hall  blefs  the  Lord*. 


*3S£3*** 


XII. 

Behold  arJfe;  (f 'there  he  any  for  row  like  unto  m$. 
jbrre<w.    Lam,  i.  13. 

2  TWTUCH  we  talk  of  Jefu's  blood, 
-LtX  But  how  little's  underflooi  I 
Of  his  fulFrings,fo  intense, 
Angels  have  no  perfect  fenfe. 
Who  can  rightly  comprehend 
Their  beginning  or  their  end! 
'Tis  to  God,  and  God  alone, 
Thai  their  weight  is  fully  known. 

:         hou  hideous  monder,  (in, 

.  a  curfe  haft  thou  brought  in  I 
All  creation  groans  thro'  thee, 
Pregnant  canjfe  of  mifery  ! 
Thou  hail  ruin'd  wretched  man, 
Tver  face  the  world  began  ; 
Thou  hail  God  affliclcd  too  ; 
Nothing  lefs  than  that  would  doi 

3  Would  we  then  rejoice  in  deed  ; 
Be  it  that  from  thee  we're  freed. 


BART*   HTMNSw  5£ 

And  our  jufleft  caufe  to  grieve 
Is.  that  thou  wilt  to  us  cleave. 
Faith  relieves  us  from  thy  guilt  : 
But  we  think  whofe  blood  wasfpilt. 
All  we  hear,  or  feel,  or  fee, 
Serves  to  raife  our  hate  to  thee. 

Dearly  are  we  bought  ;  for  God 
Bought  us  with  his  own  heart's  blood* 
Boundlefs  depths  of  love  divine  ! 
Jefus,  what  a  love  was  thine  ! 
Tho*  the  wonders  thou  haft  done 
Are  as  yet  {o  little  known  ; 
Here  we  fix  and  comfort  take  ; 
Jefus  died  for  finners'  fake. 


XLIL 
Election. 

BRETHREN,  would  you  know  your  Hay? 
What  it  is  fupports  you  ftill  ? 
Why,  tho*  tempted  ev;ry  day, 

Yet  you  ftand  ;   and  Hand  you  will? 
Long  before  our  birth, 

Nay,  before  Jehovah  laid 
The  foundations  of  the  earth, 
We  were  chofen  in  our  Head* 

God's  election  is  the  ground 

Ofourhopeto  perfevere. 
On  this  rock  your  building  found  i 

And  preferve  your  title  clear. 
Infidels  may  laugh  ; 

Pharifees  gainfay*  or  rail : 
Here's  your  tenure  (keep  it  fafe) 

God's  ekcl.  can  never  faiL 


*o  HART*   HTMNS. 

XLIII. 

Create  In  me  a  clean  heart.    Pfalm  II.  10. 

t  T   ORD,  when  thy  Spirit  defcends  to  (hew 
*-A  The  badnefs  of  our  hearts, 
Aftonifn'dat  th'  amazing  view, 
The  ioul  with  horror  ttarts. 

%  The  dungeon  opening  foul  as  hell, 
It's  loathfome  ftench  emits  ; 
And  brooding  in  each  fecret  cell 
Some  hideous  monfter  fits 

3  Swarms  of  ill  thoughts  their  bane  difFufef 

Proud,  envious,  falfe,  unclean  ; 
And  every  ranfack'd  corner  ihews 
Some  wnfufpecled  fin. 

4  Our  ftagg'ring  faith  gives  way  to  doubt  | 

Our  courage  yields  to  fear: 
Shock'd  at  the  fight,  we  {trait  cry  out, 
"  Can  ever  God  dwell  here  ?" 

5  But  he  th-   *hews  can  purge  the  filth 

Of  each  polluted  foul  ; 
Reftore  the  putrid  parts  to  health, 
And  purify  the  whole. 

6  None  lefs  than  God's  Almighty  Sot 

Can  move  fuch  loads  of  fin  : 

The  water  from  his  fide  muft  run 

To  wafh  this  dungeon  clean. 

0  O  come,  thou  much-expe&ed  gueft> 
Lord  Jefus,  quickly  come. 


HART**   HYMNS* 

Enter  the  chamber  of  my  bread, 

Thyfelf  prepare  the  room. 
For  fhouldft  thou  ftay,  till  thou  canfl  rae§fr 

Reception  worthy  thee: 
With  finners  thou  wouldft  never  5t— 

At  leaft  (am  fure)  with  me. 
When,  when  will  that  bleft  time  arrive* 

When  thou  wilt  kindly  deign 
With  me  to  fit,  to  ledge,  to  live, 

And  never  part  agaia  \ 


XLIV. 

Jabezh  prayer,     i  Chron.  iv.  f ,  x», 

$  A  Saint  there  was  in  days  of  old, 
**  Tho'  *e  but  little  of  him  hear, 
In  honor  high,  of  whom  is  told 

A  fhort,  but  an  effectual  pray'n 
This  pray'r,  my  brethren,  let  us  view, 
And  try  if  we  can  pray  {o  too. 

&  Hecali'd  on  Ifra'ls  God  'tis  faid, 

Let  us  take  notice  firfl  of  that: 
Had  he  to  any  other  pray'd, 

To  us  it  had  not  matter'd  what. 
For  all  true  Ifra'lites  adore 
One  God,  Immanuel,  and  no  more. 

$  "  Oh!  that  thou  wouMll  me  blefs  indeed, 
"  And  that  thou  wouldft  enlarge  my  bound* 
*'  And  let  thy  hand  in  er'ry  need 

"  A  guide  and  help  be  with  me  found  $ 
w  That  thou  wouldfl  caufe  that  evil  be 
*  N©  caufe  of  pain  and  grief  to  me.'* 


6z  HJRT's    HTMN$, 

4  What  is  it  to  be  bleft  indeed, 

But  to  have  all  our  fins  forgiv'n; 
To  be  from  guilt  and  terror  freed, 

Redeem'ci  from  hell,  and  feal'd  for  heav'nj 
To  worfliip  an  incarnate  God, 
And  know  he fav'd  us  by  his  blood? 

$  And  next  to  have  oar  eoaftenlarg'd; 

Is,  that  our  hearts  extend  their  plan, 
From  bondage  and  fiom'fear  difcharg'd, 

And  fill'd  with  love  to  God  and  man: 
To  caft  ofFev'ry  narrow  thought, 

And  ufe  the  freedom  Chriit  has  bought* 

i  To  ufe  this  liberty  aright, 

And  not  the  grace  of"  God  abufe, 

We  alwavs  need  his  hand,  his  might, 
Left  what  he  gives  us  we  (houldlofe; 

Spiritual  pride  would  foon  creep  in, 

And  turn  his  very  grace  to  fin. 

7  This  pray'r  fo  long  ago  prererr'd, 

Is  left  on  facred  record  thus. 
And  this  good  pray'r  by  God  was  heard, 

And  kindly  handed  down  to  us.  - 

Thusjabez  pray'd  (for  that's  his  name) 
Let  all  believers  pray  the  fame. 


XLV. 

Whitsunday. 

\XTHEN  the  bleft  day  of  Penticoft 
vv    Was  folly  come,  the  Holy  Ghoft 
iDefcended  from  above, 
Sent  by  the  Father  and  the  Son? 


HJRT'-s    UrMNS.  % 

(The  fender  and  the  fent  are  one) 
.The  Lord  of  life  and  love. 

&  Within  one  houfe,with  one  accord, 
The  faithful  foll'vvers  of  our  Lord 

Waiting  his  promife  fie ; 
That  veiled  wnhfupernttl*  powV 
They  might  be  then,  and  not  before, 

To  preach  the  gofpel  fit. 

g  Sudden  a  rufhing  wind  they  hear, 
And  fiery  cloven  tongues  appear— 

It  fat  on  ev'ry  one, 
Cloven,  perhaps,  to  be  the  (ign 
That  God  no  longer  would  confine 
His  word  to  Jews  alone. 

4  To  ev'ry  nation  under  heav'n 

To  hear  the  gofpel-found  is  giv'n— 

The  call  to  all  extends. 
As  ours  was  parted  long  ago, 
So  God  (Andes  his  language  too, 

And  after  fanners  fends. 

£  And  were  thefe  fir  ft  difciples  bleffc 
With  hea?'niy  gifts?  And  (hall  the  reft 

Be  pafs'd  unheeded  by? 
What?  Has  the  Holy  Ghoil  forgot 
To  quicken  fouls  that  Chrijl  has  bought* 

And  let's  them  lifelefs  lie? 

£  No,  thou  Afmighty  Paraclete, 

Thou  fliedd'ft  thy  heav'n'y  influence  yet. 

Thou  vifit'tt  ^nnets  ftiil: 
Thy  breath  of  life,  thy  quxck'mrig  flame, 
Thy  pow'r,  thy  Godhead,  ftill  the  fame. 
We  own,  becaufe  we  feel. 

*  From  above. 


64  HART*   HTMNS, 

XL  VI. 

Another. 

E  'T'HE  foul  that  with  fin  cere  defires 
*    Seeks  after  Jefu's  love, 
That  foul  the  Holy  Ghoft  infpires 
With  breathings  from  above. 

a  Not  ev'ry  one,  in  like  degree, 
The  Spir?tof  God  receives: 
The  Chrlftian  often  cannot  fee 
Ris  faith,  and  yet  believes. 

3  So  gentle  fometimes  is  the  flame, 

That,  if  we  take  not  heed, 
We  may  unkindly  quench  the  fame—* 
We  may,  my  friends,  indeed. 

4  Bleft  God,  that  once  in  fiery  tongue3 

Cam5ft  down  in  open  view, 
Come,  vifit  ev'ry  heart  that  longs 
To  entertain  thee  too. 

5  And  'cho*  not  like  a  mighty  wind, 

Nor  with  a  rufhing  noife; 
May  we  thy  calmer  comforts  find, 
And  hear  thy  dill  fmall  voice. 

6  Not  for  the  gift  of  tongues  we  pray, 

Nor  pow'r  the  fick  to  heal: 
Give  wifdoB)  to  direct  our  way, 
And  ftrength  to  do  thy  will. 

7  We  pray  to  be  renew'd  within, 

And  reconciled  to  God; 
To  have  our  conference  wauVd  from  fig 
In  the  Redeemer's  blood. 


HARVs   HTMNS.  €$ 

We  pray  to  have  our  faith  increase 

And,  Oceleftial  Dove! 
We  pray  to  be  completely  bleft 

With  that  rich  bleffing  love. 


XL  VII. 
Hymn  andDoxology  to  the  Trinity, 

i  HTO  comprehend  the  great  Three-One 
i-    Is  more  thanhigheft  angels  can  3 
Or  what  the  Trinity  has  done 
From  death  and  heH  toranfom  mas. 

a  But  all  true  Chriftians  this  may  boafc 
(  A  truth  from  nature  never  learn 'd  ) 
That  Father,  Son,  and  Holy  Ghcft» 
To  fave  our  fouis  are  all  concern 'd. 

3  The  Father's  love  in  this  we  find- 
He  made  his  Son  our  facrifjce. 
The  Son  in  love  his  life  refiga'd, 
The  fpir't  of  love  his  blood  applies, 

4  Thus  we  the  Trinity  can  praife 
In  unity,  thro'  Chrift  cur  King; 
Oar  grateful  hearts  and  voices  raife 
In  faith  and  love,  while  thus  weikig* 

5  Glory  to  God  the  Father  be, 
Becaufe  he  fent  his  Son  to  die. 
Glory  to  God  the  Sen,  that  he 
Did  with  fuch  willingnefs  comply, 

6  Glory  to  God  the  Holy  Ghoft, 
Who  to  our  hearts  this  love  reveals. 
Thus  God  Three-One  to  Gnners  loft 
Salvation  fends,  procures,  m&feak* 


66  HJRTs    HTMNS. 


XLVIII. 

Heaven  and  earth  ft) all  pa fs  anutiy,  but  my  n\)$rd 
jhali  not  pafs  anvay.  Matt.  xxiv.  35. 

t  HTHE  moon  and  ftars  mall  loofe  their  light, 
"*     The  fun  (hall  fink  in  endlefs  night; 
Both  heav'n  and  earth  fnall  pafs  away, 
The  works  of  nature  all  decay: 

3  But  they  that  in  the  Lord  confide, 
And  fhelter  in  his  wounded  fide: 
Shrtilfee  the  danger  overpafl — 
Stand  ev'ry  ftorm,  and  Jive  at  lafl. 

5  What  Chrift  has  faid  mufi  be  fulfil  I'd— 
On  this  firm  rock  believers  build  ; 
His  word  fhall  iland,  his  truth  prevail, 
And  not  one  jot  or  tittle  fail. 

A  His  word  is  this  (poor  (innefs,  hear) 
"  Believe  on  me,  and  banifh  fear: 
"  Ceafefrom  your  own  works,  bad  or  good, 
"  And  wad  your  garments  in  my  blood." 


XLIX. 

The  Rainbow.    I  fa.  Hr.  9. 

1  XTTHEN  deaf  to  ev'ry  warning  giv'n, 

*  *     Man  brav'tl  the  patient  pow'r  of  heav'n  j 
Great  in  Ms  anger  God  arofe, 
Delug'd  uif  jwrorldj  anddiown'd  his  fees. 


HJRT's    HYMNS.  €y 

%  Vengeance  that  cali'd  for  this  juft  doom, 
Rejir'd  to  make  iweet  mercy  room: 
God,  of  his  wrath  repenting,  fwdrg, 
A  flood  fhculd  drown  the  earth  no  more, 

%  That  future  ages  this  might  know, 
He  piac  d  in  heav'n  his  radiant  bowj 
The  fign,  tiil  time  itfeif  /hall  fail. 
That  waters  mall  no  more  prevails 

4  The  beauties  of  this  how  hut  (bins 
To  vulgar  eyes  as  fomething  fine: 
Others  invefligate  their  cauie 

By  mediums  drawn  from  nature's  laws. 

5  Rut  what  great  ends  can  man  purfue 

From  fchemes  like  thefe,  fuppofe  them  true? 
Defcrihe  the  form,  the  cauie  defrae, 
The  rainbow  ftill  remains  a  fign : 

•6  A  fign,  in  which  by  faith  we  read 
The  covenant  God  with  Noah  made; 
A  noble  end,  and  truJv  great?: 
But  fomething  greater  Jics  there  yet. 

7  This  bow,  that  beams  with  vivid  light, 
Prefents  a  fign  to  Chriftians'  iight, 

That  God  has  fworn  (who  dares  condemn! 
"  He  will  no  more  be  wroth  with  them," 

8  Thus  the  believer,  when  he  views 
Hie  rainbow  m  it's  rarious'-haes, 

May  fey  :  "  Thofe  lively  colours  mine 
"  To  fhew  that  heav'n  is  i'ureiy  mine. 

9  "  See  in  yon  cloyd  wha<-  tinctures  gio\v, 
"  And  gild  the  fmiling  vales  below  J 

c3 


6§  HART*s    HTMNS, 

'*  So  fmlles  my  cheerful  ibul  to  fee 
t*  My  God  is  reconcil'd  to  me." 


L. 
Charity  never  failetb.     I  Cor,  xiii.  $ 

l  T7AITH  in  the  bleeding  Lamb, 
Jl     O  what  a  gift  is  this ! 
Hope  of  falvation  in  his  name, 
How  comfortable  'tis! 

»  Knowledge  of  what  is  right j 
How  God  is  reconcii'd, 
A  foe  receiv'd  a  favorite, 
An  alien  made  a  child. 

3  BlefHngs,  my  friends,  like  thefe, 

Are  very  very  great: 
But  foon  they  ev'ry  one  muft  ceafe, 
Nor  are  they  now  complete. 

4  Faith  will  to  blifs  give  place, 

Injight  we  hope  shall  lofe» 
For  who  needs  iruft  for  things  he  has, 
Or  hope  for  what  he  views i 

5  The  little  too  that's  kno*w% 

Which  children-like  weboaft, 
Will  fade,  like  glow  worms  in  the  fun, 
Or  drops  in  oceaa  loft. 

6  But  love  (hall  ftill  remain; 

It's  glories  cannot  cenfe. 
No  other  change  thud  thatfuftaic, 
Safe  oat;  to  in  create. 


Of  all  that  God  beftows, 

In  earth,  or  heav'n  above, 
The  bell  gift  faint  or  angel  knows* 
Or  e'er  will  know;  is  iove. 

Love  all  defects  fupplies> 

Makes  great  obitru&icns  fmalJ, 
'Tis  pray'r,  'tis  praife,  'tis  lacrifice^ 

'Tis  holinefs,  'tis  all. 

Defcend,  ceiefrial  Dove, 

With  Jefu's  flock  abide; 
Give  us  that  beit  of  bleffings,  !ov@/ 

Whate'er  we  want  befide. 


LI. 

Jlnd  when  they  had  nothing  to  pay,  he  frankly  /$& 
gave  them  both.    Luke  vii.  \i, . 

s  llyfERCY  is  welcome  news  indeed, 
1VX  To  thofe  that  guilty  icand. 

Wretches,  that  feel  what  help  they  need$ 
W^ll  blefs  the  helping  hand. 

a  Who  rightly  would  his  alms  difpofe, 
Muft  give  them  to  thtfi&r  ; 
None  but  the  wounded  patient  knows 
The  comforts  of  his  cure. 

3  We  all  have  finn'd  againft  cur  God* 

Exception  none  can  boaft: 
But  he  that  feels  the  heavieft  load. 
Will  prize  forgivenefs  raoft. 

4  No  reck'ningcan  we  rightly  keep. 

For  who  the  fums  can  knew; 


7^  ttJRT's    MTMNS. 

Some  fouls  are  fifty  pieces  deep, 
And  fome  five  liuodied  owe. 

5  But  let  our  debts  be  what  they  may, 
However  great,  or  fmall : 
As  Toon  as  we  have  nought  to  pay, 
Our  Lord  forgives  us  ail. 

S  'Tis  pe:  feci  poverty  alone, 
That  fets  the  fou>  at  large, 
While  we  can  ca!l  one  mite  our  own, 
We  have  no  full  discharge. 


LIT. 
Praying  for  Relations. 

KIND  fouls,  who  for  the  mis'ries  moaa 
Ofthofe  who  feldom  mind  their  ownj 
But  treat  your  zeal  with  cold  dildain, 
Rdblv'd  to  make  your  labors  vain: 

You,  whofe  fincere  affection  tends 
Totielp  your  dear,  ungrateful  friends, 
That  think  you  foes,  or  mad,  or  fools, 
Becaufe  you  fain  would  fave  their  fouls s 

Tho'  deaf  to  ev'ry  warning  giv?n, 
They  feem  to  walk  with  you  to  heav'n; 
But  often  think,,  and  fometimes  fay, 
They'll  never  go,  if  that's  the  way  : 

Tho'  they  the  Spir't  of  God  refift, 
Or  ridicule  your  faith  in  Chrift: 
rlho'  they  jblafpheme,  oppofe,  condemn, 
had  hate  you  for  your  love  to  them ; 


e  One  fecret  way  is  left  you  iiill 
To  do  them  good  againft  their  wilb 
Here  they  can  no  ebftruction  give. 
You  may  do  this  without  their  leave* 

6  Fly  to  the  throne  of  grace  by  pray 'r 
And  pour  ouxali  your  wifhes  there | 
Effectual  fervent  pray'r  prevails, 
When  ev'ry  other  method  fails, 


LIII. 

Faith  is  the  Vigtorv* 

5  IITHOE'ER  believes  aright, 
VV    In  Chrift's  atoning  blood, 
Of  all  his  guilt's  acquitted  quite, 
And  may  draw  near  to  God. 
S  But  fin  willftill  remain, 

Corruptions  rife  up  thick; 
And  Satan  fays  the  medicine's  vain$ 
Becaufe  we  yet  are  lick. 
3  But  all  this  will  not  do— - 
Our  hope's  on  Jefus  caft: 
Let  all  be  liars,  and  him  be  true* 
We  mail  be  well  at  iaft. 


LIV. 

Faith  and  Repentance, 


I 


Guide,  and  Coupfellor,  and  Friends 
peering  all  our  misbehaviour, 
J£isd>  and  loving  to  the  end* 

C  4. 


72  kJR?>*   HYMkii 

Trufthim,  he  will  not  deceive  us> 
Tho'  we  hardly  of  him  deem: 
He  will  never,  never  leave  us, 
"Kor  will  let  us  quite  leave  him. 

%  View  him  in  the  doleful  garden—" 
View  him  on  the  bloody  tree, 
Dearly  purchailng  a  pardon, 
For  his  people,  full  and  free. 
View  him  now  in  heaven  fitting, 
Interceding  for  as  there, 
Not  a  moment  intermitting 
His  compaffion  and  his  care. 

3  Nothing  but  thy  blood,  O  Jefus> 
Can  relieve  us  from  otir  fmart; 
Kothing  eife  from  guilt  releafe  US* 
Nothing  elfc  can  melt  the  heart. 
Law  and  terrors  do  but  harden, 
All  the  while  they  work  alone; 
But  a  fenferof  blood-bought  pardon 
Soon  difiblves  a  heart  of  ftone. 

*  "Fis  a  fafe,tho*  deep  compunction, 
Thy  repenting  people  ^cq\. 
Love  and  giief  compound  an  unction* 
Both  to  cleanfe  our  wounds  and  heal* 
Balm  is  ufelefs  to  th'  unfeeling, 
And  repentance  without  f?ith 
is  afore,  that  never  healing 
Frets  and  rankles  unto  death. 

5  Jefus,  all  our  confolations 

flow  fro?*  Thee  the  Sov'rcign  good. 
Love,  and  faith,  *nd  hope,  and  patience* 
All  are  purchased  b-ythy  blood. 


%AkTs    HTMNS.  i% 

From  thy  fulnefs  we  receive  them; 
We  have  nothing  of  our  own; 
JFreely  thou  delight'ftto  give  them> 
To  the  needy,  who  have  none. 

Teach  us,  by  thy  patient  Spirit, 
How  to  mourn,  and  not  defpair, 
Let  us,  leaning  on  thy  merit, 
Wreftle  hard  with  God  in  pray'r* 
Whatfoe'er  affii&ions  feize  uss 
They  fhali  profit,  if  not  pleafe; 
But  defend,  defend  us,  jefus. 
From  fecurity  and  eafe. 

Softly  to  thy  garden  lead  us, 

To  behold  thy  bloody  fweat. 

Tho*  thou  from  the  curfe  haft  freed  us, 

Let  us  not  the  coll  forget. 

Be  thy  groans  and  cries  rehearfedj 

By  the  Spirit,  in  our  ears ; 

'Till  we,  viewing  whom  we've  piercsdj. 

Melt  in  Sympathetic  tears. 


ft       L^. 
Another. 

jT|OME,ye  Chriftians,  £ng  the  praifes 

Of  your  condefcending  God; 
Come,  and  hymn  the  holy  jefus, 
Who  hath  wafh'd  us  in  his  blood. 
We  are  poor,  and  weak,  and  iiiiy3 
And  to  ev'ry  evil  prone  % 
Yet  our  Jefu  loves  us  freely, 
And  receives  us  for  his  owa; 


r4  BJRTs    IirMNS. 

s  Tho'  we're  mean  in  man's  opinion, 
He  hath  made  us  priefts  and  kings; 
Pow'r  and  glory,  and  dominion 
To  the  Lamb  the  (inner  Zings. 
Leprous  fouls,  unibund  and  filthy, 
Come  before  him  as  you  are: 
'Tis  the  Tick  man.  not  the  hea!thys 
Needs  the  good  Phyfician's  care. 

5  Hear  the  terms  that  never  vary— - 
"  To  repent  and  to  believe:" 
Both  of  thefe  are  neceffary— 
Both  from  Jefus  we  receive. 
Would  be  Chriflian,  duly  ponder 
Thefe  in  thine  impartial  mind; 
And  let  no  man  put  afunder 
What  the  Lord  has  wifely  join'd, 

4  Oh!  beware  of  fondly  thinking 
God  accepts  thee  for  thy  tear*  : 
Are  the  (hip-wreck'd  fav'd  by  finking? 
Can  the  ruin'd  rife  by  fears? 
Oh!  beware  of  truft  ill-grounded— 
*Tis  but  fancied  faith  at  molt, 
To  be  cur'd,  and  not  be  wounded— 
To  be  fav'd  before  you're  loft. 

4  No  big  words  of  ready  talkers, 
No  dry  dodlrines  will  fuffice : 
Broken  hearts,  and  humble  walkers^ 
Thefe  are  dear  in  Jefu's  eyes; 
Tinkling  founds  ofdifputation» 
Naked  knowledge,  all  are  vain: 
Ev'rv  foul,  that  gains  ialvatiou, 
My  ft  aid  fhall  be  tjorn  again. 


HJRT's    HTMNS,  ;jj 

LVL 
Anotheu, 
Part  i.  | 

LET  us  afk  to?  important  queftioa 
(Brethren,  be  not  loo  iecure) 
What  it  is  to  be  a  Chriitian.; 
How  we  rsay  our  hearts  adore. 
Vain  is  all  o.ur  belt  devotion, 
If  on  falfe  foundations  built: 
True  religion's  more  than  notion- 
Something  muii  be  known  andfeit. 

'Tis  to  trull  our  well -beloved 

In  his  blood  has  wafh'd  us  clean  : 

'Tis  to  hope  our  guiirs  removed,  .„ 

Tho*  we  feel  it  rife  within. 

To  believe  that  all  is  iinim'd, 

Tho'  fo  much  remains  t'  endure  ; 

Find  the  dangers  undiminifh'd, 

Yet  to  hold  cleiiv'rance  fure. 

'Tis  to  credit  contradictions, 

Talk  with  him  one  cever  fees  : 

Cry  and  groan  beneath  afflictions,  "^ 

Yet  to  dread  i&e  thoughts  of  eale, 

'Tis  to  feeUhe  light  againft  as, 

Yet  tfee  vicVry  hope  to  gain .: 

To  believe  that  Chrift  has  cleans'd  us? 

Tho'  the kproiy  remain. 

'Tis  to  hear  the  Holy  Spirit 
Prompting  us  to  iecret  pray  r  s 
To  rejo^e  ie  Jefu's  merit; 
Yet  continual  forrow  bear. 


6  HARTs   HTMkti 

To  receive  a  full  remiffion 
Of  our  fins  for  evermore; 
Yet  to  figh  with  fore  contrition, 
Begging  mercy  ev'ry  hour. 

To  be  ftedfaft  in  believing, 
Yet  to  tremble,  fear,  and  quake. 
Ev'ry  moment  be  receiving 
Strength,  and  yet  be  always  weak. 
To  be  fighting,  fleeing,  turning; 
Ever  finking,  yet  to  fwim, 
To  converfe  with  Jefus,  mourning 
For  ourfelves,  or  elfe  for  him. 


Part  2. 

1  £*REAT  H?gh-Prieft,  we  view  thee  fbopfag, 

^  With  our  names  upon  thy  bread, 

In  the  garden  groaning,  drooping, 

To  the  ground  with  horrors  prelh 

Weeping  angels  (rood  confounded 

To  behold  their  Maker  thus, 

And  can  we  remain  unwounded, 

When  we  know  'twas  all  for  us? 
i,  On  the  crofs  thy  body  broken 

Cancels  ev'ry  penal  tie. 

Tempted  fouls,  produce  this  tokefl 

£\\\  demands  to  fatisfy. 

All  is  finifh'd,  do  not  doubt  it, 

But  believe  your  dying  Lord: 

Kever  reafon  more  about  it, 

Only  take  him  at  his  word. 

3  Lord,  we  fain  would  t^uft  thee  folel^fj 
'Twas  for  us  thy  blood  was  Ipilt* 


Z tfJRT's    HYMNS. 

Bruifed  Bridegroom,  take  us  wbollyj 
Take,  and  make  us  what  thou  wilt. 
Thou  has  borne  the  bitter  fentence 
paft  on  man's  devoted  race; 
True  belief,  and  true  repentance 
Are  thy  gifts,  thou  God  of  grace. 


LVII. 

The  Wish, 

IF  dufl  and  afhes  might  prefurne, 
Great  God,  to  talk  to  thee; 
If  in  thy  prefence  can  be  room' 
For  ctawling  worms  like  me: 
1  humbly  would  my  ivijh  preient* 

For  nvijhes  I  have  none; 
All  my  delires  are  now  content 
To  be  compnVd  in  One. 

j  I  would  not  Cue  for  length  of  days  j 

For  honor,  or  for  wealth; 
Nor,  that  which  far  furpafieth  thefe, 

Uninterrupted  health. 
I  would  not  a&,  a  monarch's  heir? 

Or  counfelionobe: 
A  better  wifdom  I  would  frhare, 

A  nobler  pedigree. 

5  Not  joy,  nor  ilrength  would  I  jrequeflj 

ThoJ  neither  I  condemn; 
But  would  petition  to  be  biefJ: 

With  what  tranfcendeth  thern. 
*Tis  net  that  angels  might  convey 

My  foul  this  tight  to  heav'a.; 


70  BART'S    H7MN8. 

Thy  tinne  with  patience  I  can  ftay, 
S.ince  all  my  fin's  forgiv'n. 

4  Nor  would  I  crave  in  higheft  Hate 

At  thy  right  bine!  to  In  : 
(The  fuit  of  Zei' dee's  fons )  for  that 

I  know  nayfelf  unfit. ' 
Nor  in  thy  church  on  earth  would  drive 
i    A  pompous  poft  to  i;.l!: 
Fcrfear  I  might  not  well  perceive* 

Or  fail  to  do  thy  V/ill. 

5  The  Gngle  boon  I  would  intreat 

Is  to  be  led  by  thee, 
To  gaze  upon  thy  bloody  fweat 

In  fad  Gethfemawe, 
To  view  (as  I  could  bear  at  leaft) 

Thy  tender  broken  heart, 
Like  a  r ich  olive,  bruis'd  and  prefl 

With  agonizing  fmart. 

6  To  fee  thee  how'd  beneath  rny  guilt, 

Intolerable  io:  A ' 
Toiee  thy  blood  for  finders  fpilt, 

My  grbaning,  gafpir.g  God! 
With  fympathizing  grief  to  mourn 

Theforraws  of  thy  foul; 
The  oangs  and  tortures  by  thee  born6 

la  fomed<  grefc  condole. 

*l  There  munng  on  thy  mighty  love, 

I  always  would  rem. 
Or  but  to  Goigbtha  remove, 

And  thence  return  again. 
Jn  each  deal  place  the  fame  rich  ictne 

Should  ever  berenew'd: 


HJRT's    HTMNS.  79 

No  objecl  elfe  fhonld  intervene, 
Bat  all  be  love  and  blood. 

For  this  one  favor  oft  I've  fought ; 

And  if  this  one  be  given, 
I  feek  on  earth  no  happier  iot ; 

And  hope  the  like  in  heaven. 
Lord,  pardon  what  I  afk  am  its  ; 

For  knowledge  I  have  none. 
I  do  but  humbly  fpeak  my  wiili  j 

And  may  thy  will  be  done. 


LYIII. 

Pride. 

INNUMERABLE  foes 
Attack  the ichu&of  God. 

He  feek  within  the  weight  of  fin, 
A  grievous  galling  iond. 

Temptations  too  svith  Vut, 
Of  various  kinds  alEuilt. 
Sly  fnares  befet  his  traveling  fee?, 
nria  make  him  oTte&halt. 

Fr.  id  frbiH  faint, 

He  meets  with  many  a  blow  :■ 
Kis  own  bad  heart  creates  him  iniarr. 
Which  oniy  God  can  knew. 

But  the'  the  hoilofheii 
Be  neither  weak;  nor  filial] ; 

deals  dang'roas  wee, 
And  hurts,  beyond  rhem  all. 

b 


So  HJRT's   HTMNS, 

$       'Tis  p;ide,  accurfed  pride, 
Thatfpir't  by  God  abhorr'c I  : 
Do  what  we  will  it  haunts  us  ftilln 
And  keeps  us  from  the  Lord. 

6      It  Wows  it's  pois'nous  breath, 
And  bloats  the  foul  with  air  ; 
The  heart  up-lihl  with  God's  own  gifts, 
And  makes  even  giace  a  fnare. 

j      Aw  ike,  nay  while  we  deep, 
3n  all  we  think  or  ipeak, 
Ic  puffs  us  glad,  torments  us  fad  ; 
It's  hold' we  cannot  break, 

s      In  other  ills  we  find 

The  band  of  heav'fl  not  flack  : 
Pride  only  knows  to  lnterpoie. 
And  keep  our  comforts  oack. 

Q      >Ti3  hurtful,  when  perceiv'd I  : 
When  not  perceiv'd  'tis  worie. 
Unfeen  or  feen  it  dwells  within, 
And  works  by  fraud  or  tore;. 

xo     Againft  it's  influence  pray, 
It  mingles  with  the  pray  r  ; 
Acainft  it  preach,  it  prompts  tbelpeecto 
Be  fileoS  ftill  'us  there, 

SI     This  moment  while  I  write, 
I  feel  it's  power  within  ; 
Mv  heart  it  draws  to  feek  applauie, 
And  mixes  all  with  fan. 


9 


Thou  meek  and  lowly  Lamb, 
This  haughty  tyrar-i  kill, 


HJRT**    HTMNS,  %i 

I'hat  wounded  thee,  tho'  thou  wad  free, 

And  grieves  thy  Spirit  dill. 
13    Our  condefcending  God, 

(To  whom  t\fe  fliali  we  go  ?) 
Remove  oar  pride  whate'er  betide  5 

And  lay,  and  keep  us  low. 

1.4     rhy  garden  is  the  place, 

Where  pride  cannot  intrude  % 
For  mould  it  dare  to  enter  there, 
*T  would  foon  be  drown'd  in  blood* 


LIX. 

The  High-Priest, 

%  TKTHEN  Aaron  in  the  holi*ft  place 
y    Atonement  made  for  Ifra'i's  racg^ 
The  names  of  all  their  tribes  expreft, 
He  wore  confpicuous  on  his  bread. 

*  Twelve  letter'd  ftones,  with  fcnlpture  boldj 
Deepfeated  in  the  wounded  gold, 
Glow'd  on  the  breavt-plare  richly  bright^ 
And  beam'd  charaderiflic  light. 

3  His  hands  a  golden  cenfer  held. 
With  burning  coals  and  incenfe  fiil'dj 
Which  clouded  all  the  holy  room 
With  od'rous  fleams  of  rich  perf  tame. 

4  And,  left  the  prieft.the  place  defile* 
A  ccftiy  coniecrating  oil. 

With  mingled  gums  and  fpices  t\vett5 
Had  for  his  o^Hce  ojade  fairs  meet* 


U  BJRT*    HTMNS. 

5  The  liquid  compound  from  his  head 
It's  aoctuoas  odours  downward  fpread 
Delicious  drops,  iike  balmy  dews, 
O'er  all  the  man  their  fv.  eets  difiufei 

6  Array'd  in  hallowed  veils  he  flood, 
Sprinkled  with  hoiy  oil  and  biood. 
The  tabernacle's  (acred  frame, 
And  ali  within  it,  fhar'd  the  fame. 

7  So  whea  our  great  Melchizedek 
The  true  atonement  came  to  make, 
A  holy  oil  anoints  Him  too, 
Richer  than  Aaron  ever  kn°w. 

S  His  bodybath'd  in  fweat  and  blood, 
Shower'don  the  ground  a  purple  flood 
The  rich  effufion  copious  ran, 
To  g'ad  the  heart  of  God  and  man. 

?  Deep  in  hisbreaft  engrav'd  he  bore 
Our  n  \     b  every  penal  (core  , 

When  preft  to  earth  he  profibrate  lay? 
Shock'd  at  the  .urn,  yet  pro;,;, 

iq  The  fragrnnt  incenfe  of  his  prayV. 
To  heav'n  went  up  thro'  yielding  air  ; 
Perfum'd  the  throne  of  God  on  hjgha 
And  calm'd  offended  Maj 


LX. 

Election. 

MIGHTY  enemies  without, 
■  Much  mightier  within, 
Thoughts  we  cannot  quell,  not 
jjlafphemoufly  o&fceae  \ 


HJRT's    HTMNS, 

Coldnefs,  unbelief,  and  piide, 
Heil,  and  all  its  murd'rous  traio5 

Threaten  death  en  ev'ry  5iz, 
And  have  their  thoufands  flam, 

%  Thuspurfu'd,  and  thus  diRreR3 

Ah!   whither  (hail  we  fly? 
To  obtain  the  promis'd  reft, 

On  what  ibre  hand  rely  ? 
Shall  the  Chriftian  truft  his  heart  ? 

That,  alas  I  of  foes  the  worit, 
Always  takes  the  tempter's  part; 

Nay,  often  tempts  him  firil- 

3  If  to-day  we  be  fincere, 

And  can  both  watch  and  pray  5 
Watchfulnefs,  perhaps,  and  pray'& 

To-morrow  may  decay. 
If  we  now  believe  aright ; 

Faithfulnefs  is  God's  alone  3 
We  are  feeble,  fickle,  light, 

To  changes  ever  prone. 

4  But  we  build  upon  a  bafe 

That  nothing  can  remove, 
When  we  trull  electing  grace, 

And  everlafting  love. 
VicVryover  all  our  foes 

Chrift  has  pnrchas'd  with  his  blood  5 
Peifeverance  hebeftows 

Qnev'iy  chiI4ofGod, 


24  HJRTs    HYMN  St 

LXI. 
Another. 
t  X^y  HEN  we  pray,  or  when  we  Cmgt 
Or  reads  or  (peak,  or  hear, 
Or  do  any  holy  thing* 

Be  this  our  conilant  care  : 
With  a  fixt  habitual  faith, 

Jefas  Chiift  to  keep  in  view* 
Trufting  wholly  in  his  death 
In  all  we  afk  or  do. 

4  Holinefa  in  all  its  parts, 

Affections  plac'd  above, 
§elf-abhorrence,  contrite  hearts* 

Humility  and  Jove. 
Bv'rv  virtue,  ev'ry  grace, 

All  that  bears  the  name  of  good* 
iPerfeveranee  in  our  race, 

We  draw  from  Jefa's  blood. 

g  Lamb  of  God,  in  thee  we  truft, 
On  thy  fixt  love  depend  ; 
Thou  art  faithful,  true,  and  juft, 

And  loved  to  the  end. 
Heav'n  and  earth  flisll  pafs  away  5 

But  thy  word  (hall  firm  abide  : 
That's  thy  children's  ftedfait  flay, 
When  all  things  fail  befide. 

hi  ii  —in  i 

Lxir. 

Christ  in  the  Garden. 

r  /^OME  hither  ye  that  fain  would  know* 
Vv4  Th'  exceeding  finfulnefs  of  fin  ; 
Come  fee  a  fcene  of  matchkfs  woe* 
And  tcli  me  what  it  all  can  mean. 


HJRT's    HYMNS,  85 

-»  Behold  the  darling  Son  of  God, 
Bow'd  down  with  horror  to  the  ground, 
Wrung  at  the  heart,  and  Sweating  blood. 
His  eyes  in  tears  of  forrow  drown'do 

«  See  how  the  victim  panting  lies, 
His  foul  with  bitter  anguiih  prett.    < 
He  fighs,  he  faints,  he  groans,  he  cries, 
Difmay'd,  dejeded,  fhock'd,  diftreft  . 

4  What  pangs  are  thefe  that  tear  his  heart  I 
What  burden's  this  that's  on  him  laid? 
What  means  this  agony  of  fmart  ? 
What  makes  our  Maker  hang  his  head; 

5  'Tis  juftice  with  its  iron  rod 
Inflicting  fcrokes  of  wrath  divine: 
*Tis  the  vindictive  hand  of  God 
Incens'd  at  all  your  (ins  and  mine. 

6  Deep  in  his  bread  our  names  were  cut, 
He  undertook  our  defperate  debt. 
Such  loads  of  guilt  were  on  him  put, 
He  could  but  juft  fudain  the  weight. 

?  Then  let  us  not  ourfelves  deceive  5 
For  while  of  fin  we  lightly  deem, 
Whatever  notions  we  may  have, 
Indeed  we  are  not  much  like  him. 


LXIII. 

The  Crucifixion. 

I  VTOW  from  the  garden  to  the  crofs, 
IN  Let  us  attend  the  Lamb  of  God  j 
Be  all  things  elfe  accounted  drofs, 
Corapar'd  with  fia-atoning  blood. 


SS  HJRT's    HTMNU 

z  See  how  the  patient  Jefns  flands, 
Infuhed  in  his  Joweft  cafe  : 
Sinnc-fS  have  bcund  the  Almighty's  hands, 
And  ipic  in  their  Creator's  face. 

3  With  thorns  his  temples  gor'd  and  gaflt'd, 
Send  flreams  of  blood  from  ev'ryfpart ; 
His  back's  with  knotted  fcourges  lalVd  ; 
Bat  {harper  fcourges  tear  his  heart. 

4  Nail'd  naked  toth'  accurfed  wood, 
Evoos'd  to  earth,  and  heav'a  above  ; 
A  fpeclacle  of  wounds  and  blood  ; 
A  prodigy  of  injur'd  love  ! 

5  Hark,  how  his  doleful  cries  afTtight 
AfFecied  angels,  while  they  view. 
His  friends  forfook  him  in  the  night, 
And  now  his  God  forfakes  him  too. 

6  O,  what  a  field  of  battle's  here  ! 
Vengeance  and  love  their  pow'rs  oppofe  : 
Never  was  fuch  a  mightv  pair  ; 
Never  were  two  fuch  deip'rate  foes. 

7  Behold  that  pale,  that  languid  face, 
That  drooping  head,  thole  cold  dead  eyes  ! 
Behold  in  forrow  and  difgrace 
Our  conqu'ring  Hero  hangs  and  dies  ! 

8  Ye  that  aflume  his  facred  name, 
Now  tell  me,  what  can  all  this  mean  ? 
What  was  it  bruis'd  God's  harmlefs  Lamb? 
What  was  it  piere'd  his  foul,  but  fia? 

9  Bind),  Chtiftian,  bluftt,  let  (hame  abound  ; 
It  lin  affects  thee  not  with  wee, 


HART9*    HTMNSl  %7 

Whatever  fpir't  be  in  thee  found, 

The  Spir't  of  Chrift  thou  doit  not  know, 


LXIV. 

In  the  Lord  have  I  righteoufnefs  and  Jlrengih 

Ifa.xiv.  34. 
♦ 

2  Tj'AlTH  in  Jefus  can  repel 
X?   The  darts  of  fin  and  death  i 
Faith  gives  vicVrv  over  heil  ; 

But  who  can  give  us  faith  P 
Hope  in  Chrift  the  foul  revives  ; 

Supports  the  (pints,  when  they  drcopf 
Hope  celeftial  comfort  giyes  ; 

But  who  can  give  us  hope  P 

%  Love  to  Jefus  Chrift  and  his, 

Fixes  the  heart  above. 
Love  gives  everlafiing  biffs : 

But  who  can  give  us  love  ? 
To  believe's  the  gift  of  God : 

Well-grotmded  hope  he  fends  from  heav'iU 
i  site's  the  purchafe  of  his  bloody 

To  all  his  children  giv'n. 

3  Jeiiis.  from  thy  boundlefs  flore> 

Thy  treafuries  of  grace, 
On  thy  feeble  followers  pour 

Thy  righteoufnefs  and  peace. 
Of  thy  righteoufnefs  alone  _ 

Continual  mention  we  will  make} 
We  have  nothing  of  our  own; 

But  foul  and  all's  at  ftake. 

P3 


n        barts  arMNs, 

LXV. 

Man's  Righteoushis** 

i  TV 4*  AN,  bewail  thy  (ituation : 
JLY1        Hell-born  fin, 
Once  crept  in, 
Mars  God's  fair  creation. 

a  Vaunt  thy  native  ftrength  no  longer; 
Vain's  the  boaft  5 
Ail  is  loft; 
Sin  and  death  are  ftronger. 

3  Enemies  to  God  and  goodnefs* 

Great  and  imall, 
Since  the  fall, 
Sink  in  luft  and  lewdnefs. 

4  If  to  this  thoa  art  aftranger, 

While  thou  lieft 
Out  of  Chrift, 
Greater  is  thy  danger. 

5  Truft  not  to  thy  fmooth  behavior  i 

All's  deceit; 
And  the  cheat 
Keeps  thee  from  the  Saviour. 

6  Oft  we're  beft  when  dangers  fright  U3  5 

Jefas  came 
To  reclaim 
Sinners,  not  the  righteous. 

g  Sick  men  feel  their  bad  condition  5 
But  the  foul, 
That  is  whole, 
Slights  the  goad  Phyficiatu 


HAR2>i   HYMNS. 

LXVI. 

The  Linsey-Woolsey  Garment, 

t  T\  ARK  is  he  whofe  eye's  not  fingle  ; 
aJ        Foolifh  man, 

Never  can 
Hell  with  heav'n  mingle. 

S  Ev'ry  thing  we  do  we  fin  in  5 
Chofen  Jews 
Muilnot  nfe. 
Woollen  raixt  with  linen. 

3  God  is  holy  in  his  nature  % 

And  by  that 
Needs  rnuft  hate 
Sin  in  every  creature. 

4  InHnite  in  truth  and  juftice, 

He  furveys 
All  our  ways  ; 
Knows  in  whom  our  trull  h;  1 

5  Partial  fervice  is  his  loathing  : 

Ke  requires 
Pure  de  fires, 
AH  the  heart  or  nothing. 

6  If  we  tliink  of  reconciling 

Black  with  white, 
Dark  with  light, 
'Tlsbut  felf-beguiiing. 

7  Righteoufnefs  to  full  perfection 

Mud  be  brought, 
Lacking  nought* 
Fcrarlefs  of  rejecKoo, 


cp  HJRT*%   UYMwk 

LXVII. 

Christ's  Righteousness* 

i  p  IGH TEOUSNESS  to  the  believer, 
*-*-         Finely  giv'n, 

Comes  from  heav'n  : 
I     d  birafelf  the  giver. 

7,  Chriii  has  wrought  this  mighty  wonder 
God  aad  man 
By  hiiii  can 
Meet,  and  never  funder. 

3  All  the  lav/  in  human  nature 

He  falfill'd, 
Keconci 
Creature  and  Creator. 

4  Ev'ry  one*  without  exemption, 

That  believes, 
Now  receives 
Abfolute  redemption. 

5  Robes  of  righteoufoefs  imputed, 

White  and  whole, 
Cloath  the  foul, 
Each  exactly  fuited. 

6  'Tis  a  way  of  God's  own  finding  ; 

"Tis  his  act; 

And  the  Paft  * 
Cannot  but  be  I 

7  Here  is  no  prevarication  ; 

1    Tuft  ice  ilart 
And  tfeaaaoda 
Full  and  free  fa  1  vat  ion, 

*  Cov^arit, 


LXVIII. 

The  Saint's  Inheritance, 

I  pERFECT  holinefs  of  fpirit, 
±  Saints  above 

Full  of  love 
With  the  Lamb  inherit. 
a  This  inheritance,  believer, 
Faith  alone 
Makes  thy  own, 
Safe  and  fure  for  ever. 

3  True,  'twas  thine  from  everlafting  J 

But  the  blifs 
Of  it  is 
Known  to  thee  by  tailing. 

4  Tho'  thou  here  receive  but  little, 

Scarce  enough 
For  the  proof 
Of  thy  proper  title. 

5  Urge  thy  claim  through  all  unfitnefc* 

Sue  it  out, 
Spurning  doubt  ; 
Th*  Holy  Ghoft's  thy  witaefs. 

6  Cite  the  will  of  his  own  feaiins  5 

Title  good, 
Signed  with  blood. 
Valid  and  unfailing. 

7  Wherithy  title  thou  dtfceraefe 

Humbly  then 
Sue  again 
For  continual  earned. 


f2 


&JRT's  HTMNS. 


LXIX. 


Bui  it  is  good  for  me  t$  draw  near  U  (??.i 
Plalm  Ixxiii.  1%. 

f  A  S  when  a  child  fecure  ofharms 
A  Hangs  at  the  mother's  breaft, 
Safe  folded  in  her  anxious  arms, 

Receiving  food  and  reft  : 
And  while  thro'  many  a  painful  path 

I  he  traveling  parent  fpeeds 
The  fearlefs  babe,  with  paflive  faith, 
Lies  ftill,  and  yet  proceeds. 

»  Should  fome  fhort  ftart  his  quiet  break, 

He  fondiy  drives  to  tiing 
His  little  arms  about  her  neck, 

And  fecms  to  clofer  cling. 
Poor  child,  mateina!  love  alone 

Preferves  thee  iirft  and  laft  ; 
Thy  parent's  arms,  and  not  thy  own, 

Are  thole  that  hoid  thee  fail. 

5  So  fouls  that  would  to  Jeius  cleave, 

And  hear  his  fecret  call, 
Mull  ev'ry  fair  pretenfion  leave, 

And  let  the  Lord  be  all. 
u  Kecrp  clofe  to  me.  thou  helplefs  (beep,'' 

The  Shepherd  foftly  cries, 
hordtell  me  what  'tis  clofe  to  keep  ? 

The  liit'ning  Iheep  replied. 

4  <c  Thy  whole  dependence  on  me  fix  ; 
"  Nor  entertain  a  thought, 
if  Thy  wor-fhlefs  (chemes  with  mine  to  mix, 
<;  But  venture  to  be  nought-* 


fl JRT>s   HTMNS. 

w  Fond  felf-dire&ion  is  a  fhelf . 

"  Thy  flrength,  thy  wifdom  flee  :  ■ 
"  When  thou  art  nothing  in  thy  {"elf* 

"  Thou  then  art  dole  to  me.;} 


LXX. 

Temptation-* 

E  VE  tempted  fouls,  reflect 

A    Whole  name  'tis  you  prcfefs  5 

Your  Matter's  lot  you  miift  expedr, 
Temptations  more  or  lefs. 

%  Dream  not  of  faith  fo  clear, 
As  (huts  all  doublings  out  ■:' 
Remember  how  the  devil  could  dare 
To  tempt  e'en  Chriii:  to  doubt. 

j  '?  If  thou'i  t  the  80a  of  God, 
(O,  what  sn  if\vk%  there !.) 
**  Thefe  ftones  here,fpeak  them  into  food> 
**  And  make  that  fonfhip  clear." 

►4  View  that  amazing  fcene  ! 
Say,  could  the  tempter  try 
To  (hake  a  tree  fo  found,  fo  green  ? 
Good  Godj  defend  the  dry. 

5  Think  not  he  now  will  fail 

To  make  us  (brink  and  droop. 
Our  faith  he  daily  will  a£ul, 
And  dafh  our  very  hope. 

Th'w.  impious  if  he  thus 
At  God  incarnate  threw, 


|t  HART'S   HTMN&. 

No  wonder  if  he  cad  at  us, 
And  make  us  feel  it  too. 

j  Tocaufe  defpair'sthe  fcopcj. 
Of  Satan  and  his  pow'rs. 
Againft  hope  to  believe  in  hope. 
My  brethren,  muft  be  ours. 

%  Bids,  ifs>  and  bows  are  huri'd* 
To  fink  us  with  the  gloom 
Of  all  that's  difmal  in  this  world; 
Or  in  the  world  to  conae. 

$  But  here's  our  point  of  reft  : 
Tho'  hard  the  battle  feem, 
Our  Captain  ftood  the  fiery  tell, 
And  we  fhali  iland  thro*  him. 


LXXI. 

Tke  Prodigal, 


NOW  for  a  wondrous  fong. 
(Keep  diftance,  ye  profane ; 
Be  fiient,  each  unhallowed  tongue, 
Nor  turn  the  truth  to  bane.) 

The  pror/igap3  returned, 

Th'  aportate  bold  and  bafe ; 
That  ail  his  Father's  counfels  l'purn'dj 

And  iongabusM  his  grace. 

What  treatment  ilr.ce  he  came  ? 

Love  tenderly  eKpreit. 
What  robe  is  brought  to  hide  his  fhamc  J 

T^e  belt,  the  very  bell. 


HART's   HYMNS, 

Rich  food  the  fervants  bring. 

Sweet  raufic  charms  his  ears. 
See  what  a  beauteous  coftlyring 

The  beggar's  finger  wears  * 

Ye  elder  foils,  be  ftill ; 

Give  no  bad  pafiion  vent : 
My  brethren,  'tis  our  Father's  will* 
And  you  muft  be  content. 

All  that  he  has  is  yours  : 

Rejoice  then,  not  repins. 
That  love  that  all  your  ftates  fecures* 

That  love  has  altered  mine. 

Good  God,  are  thefe  thy  ways ! 

If  rebels  thus  are  freed, 
Andfavor'd  with  peculiar  grace, 

Grace  muft  be  free  indeed. 


LXXIL 

All  my  Springs  are  in  thee.   Pfalm  Ix  xxvii.  7 , 

1  T>  LESS  the  Lord,  my  foul,  and  raife 
13  A  glad  and  grateful  fong 
To  my  dear  Redeemer's  praile ; 

For  I  to  him  belong. 
He  ray  goodnefs,  ftrength,  and  God9 

In  whom  I  Jive,  and  move,  and  am^ 
Paid  my  ranfom  with  his  blood  : 

My  portion  is  the  Lamb. 

a  Tho'  temptations  feldomceafej 
Tho'  frequent  gtiefs  I  fee! ; 
Yet  hie  Spirit  whifpers  peace,, 
And  he  is  with  me  ftiiL 


6  HAkTs   HTMNS. 

Weak  of  body,  fick  in  foul, 

Depreft  at  heait,  and  faint  with  fears5 
His  dear  prefence  makes  me  whole, 

And  will:  fweet  comfort  cheers. 

0  my  Jefus,  thou  art  mine, 
With  all  thy  grace  and  power ; 

1  am  now,  and  fhal!  be  thine, 

When  time  mall  be  no  more. 
Thou  reriv'ft  me  by  thy  death  ; 

Thy  blood  from  guilt  has  fbt  me  free  ; 
My  frem  iprings  of  hope,  and  faith, 

And  iove,  are  all  in  thee. 


LXXIII. 

If  there  arlfe  among  you  a  prophet \  or  a  dreamer  ej 
drea??is»  \$c.    Dent.  xiii.  i,  &c. 

I  |^0  prophet,  nor  dreamer  of  dreams, 
**  No  mafter  of  planfible  fpeech, 
To  live  like  an  angel  who  feems, 

Or  like  an  apoftle  to  preach  ; 
No  tempter,  without  or  within, 

No  fpirit,  tho*  everfo  bright, 
That  comes  crying  out  againft  fin, 

And  looks  like  an  angel  of  light ; 

ft  Tho'  reafon,  tho'  fltnefs  he  urge, 

Or  plead  with  the  words  of  a  friend, 
Or  wonders  of  argument  forge, 
Or  deep  revelations  pretend, 
-Should  meet  with  a  moment's  regard, 
But  rather  be  boldly  withftood, 


&4&T>3  HYMNS.  97 

If  any  thing,  eafy  or  hard. 

He  teach,  fa*e  the  Lamb  and  his  blood; 

I    Remember,  O  Chriitian,  with  heed, 

When  funk  under  fentence  of  death, 
How  firft  thou  from  bondage  wad  freed  J 

Say,  was  it  by  vsorks,  or  by  faith  ? 
On  Chrift  thy  affections  then  iixt, 

What  conjugal  truth  didft  tjicu  vow! 
With  him  was  there  any  thing  mixt  r 

Then  what  v/ould'ft  thou  mix  with  him  now? 

ji  If  clofe  to  the  Lord  thou  would'ft  cleave* 

Depend  on  his  promife  alone; 
His  righteoulhefs  would'il  thou  receive, 

Then  learn  to  renounce  all  thy  own. 
The  faith  of  a  Chriftian  indeed 

Is  more  than  mere  notion  or  whim  % 
United  to  Jefus,  his  head, 

He  draws  life  and  virtue  from  him. 

;  Deceived  by  the  father  of  lies 

Blind  guides  cry,  Lo  herd  and  Lo  there} 
By  thefe  our  Redeemer  us  tries, 

And  warn  us  of  fuch  to  beware. 
Poor  comfort  to  mourners  they  give, 

Who  fet  us  to  labor  in  vain  ; 
Aad  flrive,  with  a  Do  this  and  live. 

To  drive  us  to  Egypt  again. 

&  Bnt  what  fays  our  Shepherd  divine? 
(For  his  bleffed  word  we  mould  keep) 
*'  (a)  This  flock  has  my  Father  made  mine, 
"  (b)  I  lay  down  my  life  for  my  fheep. 

(a J  Joha  x.  »?,  (bj  Verfe  15, 


$$  HJRTs    HTMNS. 

"  (c)  'Tislifeeverlafting  I  give; 

"  (d)  My  blood  was  the  price  that  it  ccflit 
ft  ffj  Not  one  that  on  me  flail  bdieye, 

"  Shall  ever  be  finally  loft." 
8  This  God  is  the  God  we  adore, 

^ui  faithful  unchangeable  friend: 
"Whole  love  is  as  large  as  his  pow'r, 

And  neither  knows  meafure  nor  end. 
Tig  Jefus,  the  firft  and  ihe  Iaft, 

Whofe  Spirit  ftiall guide  osfafehomcj 
ftVil  praife  him  for  all  that  is  pale, 
And  trull  him  for  ali  that's  to  come. 

(:)  John  x.  %%.  (d)  Verfe  u.  (e)  Ch.iii.  15.  id 


LXXIV. 

hlicve  in  the  Lord  your  God;  fojhali you  Is  ejla 
llljhed.    2  Chrcn.  xx.  20. 

LORD,  we  lie  before  thy  feet, 
Look  on  all  «ur  deep  diftreis; 
Thy  rich  mercy  may  we  meet, 

Cloath  us  with  thy  righteoufnefs, 
Stretch  forth  thy  Almighty  Hand, 
Hold  us  up,  and  we  ihall  iland. 

S  Shame,  and  fear,  and  pain  we  feel 

Viewing  our  unliable  hearts: 
How  we  wander,  waver,  reel, 

Only  wife  by  tits  and  itaits. 
Thou  art  truth — but  what  are  we? 
Fickle  fools,  and  falfe  to  thee. 

j  Oh,  that  clofer  we  could  cleave 
To  thy  bleeding,  dying  IsrcafU 


ffJRT's    HTMNS.  ^ 

\  Give  us  firaily  to  believe, 

And  to  enter  into  reft. 
-  Lord,  increase,  incrcafe  our  faith, 
Make  us  faithful  unto  dea:^. 

Make  thy  mighty  wonders  known, 

Let  us  fee  thy  luff  rings  plain: 
Let  us  hear  thee  figh  and  groan, 

Till  we  figh  and  groan  again, 
Rend,  O  rend  the  veil  between ; 
Open  wide  the  blood?  fcene. 

Let  us,  with  a  fledfail  faith, 

View  our  dear  incarnate  God    \ 
Shudd'ring  in  the  arms  of  death,  \ 

Row'd  beneath  our  nature's  Icaa 
oar  union  with  thee  clear, 
Perfect  fove,  and  cait  cut  fear.       i 

s  trail  thee  evermore, 

Ev'ry  moment  on  thee  call, 
For  new  life,  new  will,  new  pow'i, 

Let  us  mi(t  thee,  Lord,  for  all. 
May  we  nothing  know  betide 
jui'us,  and  him  cruciiied. 


•  LXXV. 

J  ejus  eft  times  refiried  thither  mth  his Jifdpks. 
John  xviii.  z. 

JESUS,  wbiie  he  dwelt  below 
As  divine  fritffcorians  fay, 
To  a  place  would  often  go, 
Isear  to  Kcdron's  brook  it  la'; 


ioo  HJRT's    HTMNS, 

In  this  place  he  lov'd  to  be, 
And  'twas  nam'd  Gstkfcmane. 

%  'Twas  a  garden,  as  we  read, 
At  the  foot  of  Oiiret, 
Low,  and  proper  to  be  made 

The  Redeemer's  lone  retreat. 
When  from  noiie  he  would  be  free> 
Then  he  fought  Getbfsmane. 

$  Thither,  by  their  Mailer  brought, 
His  difcipies  Jikewife  came: 

There  the  leav'nly  truths  he  taught 
Often  let  their  hearts  on  fiame. 

Therefore :hey,  as  well  as  he, 

Vifited  Gehfemans. 

4  Here  they  oft  converting  fat, 

Or  miglt  join  with  Chriil  in  pray'r; 
Oh,  whatbleft  devotion's  that* 

When  ihe  Lord  himfelf  is  there! 
All  thing:  to  them  feem'd  t'  agree 
To  endea  Gethfcmane* 

5  Here  no  irangers  durft  intrude, 

But  the  Prince  of  Peace  could  fit4 
Cheer'd  with  (acred  folitude, 

Wrapt  in  contemplation  fv/eet; 
Yet  how  liulefeourd  they  fee, 
Why  he  c\\qiz Get. !ftma?ie. 

i  Full  of  love  ti  man's  loft  race, 

On  this  coifliift  much  he  thought; 

This  he  knewthe  deftin'd  place. 
And  he  lovd  the  facred  fpot. 

Therefore  *tiu  he  iik'd  to  hz 

Often  in  Gettfananc. 


HART's    HTMNS,  toi 

'  They  his  foll'wers  with  the  reft, 

Had  incurred  the  wrath  divine: 
And  their  Lord,  with  pity  preil, 

Long'd  to  bear  their  loads — and  mine* 
Love  to  them,  and  love  to  me 
Made  him  love  Gethfemam, 

Many  woes  had  he  endur'd, 

Many  fore  temptations  met, 
;  Patient,  rmd  to  pains  inur'ds 

But  the  Cored  trial  yet 
Was  to  be  fuftain'd  In  thee, 
Gloomy  fad  Gzihfemansl 

Came  at  length  the  dreadful  night? 

Vengeance  with  it's  iron  rod 
Stood,  and  with  colle&ed  might 

Bruis'd  the  harmiefs  Lamb  of  God» 
See,  my  foui,  thy  Saviour  fee, 
Grcv'iing  in  Gethfemam! 

o  View  him  in  that  Olive-Prefs^ 

Squeezed  and  wrung,  till  whelm'd  in  blood  S 
View  thy  Maker's  deep  ciflrefs! 

Hear  the  fighs  ard  groans  of  God! 
Then  reflect  what  iia  mu{t  be, 
Gazing  on  Gsthfsmane. 

i  Poor  difciples,  tell  me  now, 

Where's  the  love  you  lately  had! 

Where's  that  faith  ye  all  couU  vow  ?-*> 
But  this  hour  is  too  too  fad. 

'Tis  not  now  for  fuch  as  ye 

To  fupport  Gethfe?Jiane. 

z  Oh,  what  wonders  love  has  dons? 
But  how  little  underftood! 


io2  HARTs    HTMNS. 

God  well  knows,  and  God  alone, 

What  prcduc'd  that  fweat  of  blood. 
Who  can  thv  deep  wonders  fee, 
Wronderful  Gethfcmanc? 

13  There  my  God  bore  all  my  guilt: 

1  his  thro*  grace  can  be  behev'dj 
But  the  horrors  which  he  felt, 

Are  toovafttobe  conceiv'd. 
Konecan  penetrate  thro1  tl 
Doleful,  dark  Gethfemane. 

14  Gloomy  garden,  on  thy  beds, 

Wafh'd  by  Kedron's  waters  foul, 
Grow  moll  rank  and  bitter  weeds : 

Think  on  thele,  my  finful  foul. 
Would'il  thou  fin's  dominion  flee, 
Call  (0  mind  Grtbfemaiie. 

15  Sinners,  vile  like  me,  and  loft, 

(UJ  there's  one  fo  vile  as  J) 
Leave  more  righteous  fouls  to  bond; 

Leave  them,  and  to  refuge  fiy. 
We  may  well  blefsthat  deciee, 
Which  ordain'd  Gethjlmatte. 

16  We  can  hope  no  healing  hand, 

Leprous  quite  throughout  with  fin: 
Loath'd  incwrables  wefland, 

Crying  out,  unclean,  m: clean. 
Help  there's  none  for  fuch  as  we> 
But  ifc  dear  Vttbjbtitane. 

17  fiden,  from  each  flow'ry  bed, 

Di  ;  foi  man  fhort  fweetnefs  breathe: 
Soon  by  Satan's  couofel  led, 
Man  wrought  fin,  and  fin  wrought 


TfJRT's   HTMNS.  103 

But  of  life  the  healing  tree 
Grows  in  rich  Gethfanane. 

iS  Hither,  Lord,  thou  didft  refort 

Oft-tirocs  with  thy  little  train: 
Here  wouldn't,  keep  thy  private  court— 

Oh!  confer  that  grace  again. 
Lord  refort  with -worthlefs  me 
Oft-times  to  Gcthfemane. 

19  True,  I  can't  deferve  to  JHare 

In  a  favor  fo  divine: 
But,  iince  fin  mil  hx'd  thee  there, 

None  hare  greater  fins  than  mine  : 
And  to  this  my  woeful  pica 
Witnefs  thou  Gethfe?nane. 

so  Sins  againft  a  holy  God — 

Sins  againft  his  righteous  law-—* 
Sins  againit  his  love?  his  blood — '     • 
Sins  againft  his  name  and  caufe— 
Sins  irrimenfe"  as  is  the  fea: 
Hide  me  ©  Qztbjemane. 

21  Here's  my  claim,  and  here  alone, 

None  2  Saviour  more  can  need, 
Deeds  of  righteoufnefs  I've  none, 

No,  not  one  good  work  to  plead. 
Not  a  glimpfe  of  hope  for  me, 
Only  in  Getkfem&tie. 

22  Saviour,  all  the  ftcne  remove 

From  my  flinty  frozen  heart : 

Thaw  it  with  the  beams  of  love- 
Pierce  it  with  a  blood-dipt  dart. 

Wound  the  heart  that  wounded  thee? 

Melt  k  in  Gethfemane. 

D3 


*o4  HART*    HTMNSf 

33  Father,  Son.  and  Holy  Ghoft, 
One  Almighty  God  of  love, 

Hymn'd  by  ail  the  heavenly  hoft, 
In  thy  fliining  courts  above, 

We  poor  (timers,  gracious  Three; 

Biefs  thee  for  Getkjemane. 


LXXVI. 

The  INESTIMABLE  BENEFITS  of  CHRIST'S 

Death,  inferred  from  the  Excellency 
of  his  Person. 

Part  i. 
I  HPHE  things  on  earth  which  men  efteem; 
A    And  of  their  richnefs  boair, 
In  value,  lefs  or  greater  feem, 
Proportion'd  to  their  coil, 
a  The  diamond  that's  for  thoufands  fold, 
Our  admiration  draws: 
For  duft,  men  feldom  part  with  gold, 
Or  barter  pearls  for  draw*. 
$  Then  what  ineftimable  worth 
M'jft  in  thofe  crowns  appe?r, 
For  which  the  Lord  came  down  to  earth. 
And  bought  for  ls  fo  dear.1 

4  The  Fattier  dearly  loves  the  Son, 

And  rates  his  merits  high  : 
For  no  mean  caufe  he  fent  him  down 
To  fufFer,  grieve,  and  die. 

5  The  blefiujgs  from  his  death  rhat  Sow, 

So  little  we  efteem, 
Only  becaufe  we  (lightly  know, 
And  nieauiy  value  him. 


£  *Twas  our  Creator  for  us  bled, 
The  Lord  of  life  and  povv'r; 
Whom  angels  worfhip,  devils  dreads 
God  bleit  for  evermore. 

ij  Oh?  could  we  bat  with  clearer  eyes 
His  excellencies  trace; 
Ccuki  we  his  perfon  learn  to  prize* 
We  more  mould  prize  his  grace. 


Part  2. 

*     A  ND  did  the  d?rling  Son  of  Goi 
A  For  finners  deign  to  bleed? 
Thepurchafe  of  that  precious  blood 
Muft  needs  be  rich  indeed. 

■2,  God's  wifdoin  v/ould  not  pay  for  toy§ 
So  great  a  price  as  this : 
'Tis  God- like  glory,  bo  un  die  fs  joys> 
'Tis  unexampled  blifs. 

3  Saints*  raife  your  expectations  high- 

Hope  all  that  heav'n  has  good  : 
Think  what  the  blood  of  Chrift  can  buji 
Invaluable  blood! 

4  Eye  had  notfeen,  nor  ear  hath  heard, 

Nor  can  the  heart  conceive. 
What  bleiTings  are  for  them  prepar'dj 
Who  in  the  Lord  believe. 

£  By  others,  for  their  virtue  fair, 
Let  rich  rewards  be  fought : 
Give  7net  my  God,  to  freely  fhare* 
What  thou  haft  dearly  bought, 


B 


tot  HJRT's   HTMN8. 


LXXVIT. 

Who  of  God  has  marie  unto  us  IV if  dim,  and  Ri git 
eoufnefsK  and  Saniiificatson,  and  Redemption* 

i  Cor.  i.  jo. 

ELIEVERS  own  they  are  but  blind; 
They  know  themfelres  tmwife: 
But  Wifdom  in  the  Lord  they  find, 
Who  opens  all  their  eyes. 

»  Unrighteous  are  they  all,  when  tried> 
But  God  himielf  declares, 
In  Jefus  they  are  justified, 
His  righteoufnrfs  is  theirs*. 

3  That  we're  unholy  needs  no  proof} 

We  forely  feel  the  fall: 
But  Chrift  has  holinefs  enough 
Tofanclify  us  all. 

4  Expos'd  by  fin  to  God's  jufl  wrath, 

We  look  to  Chrift,  and  view 
Redemption  in  his  blood  by  faitfr, 
And  full  redemption  too. 

5  Some  this,fone  that  good  virtue  teach, 

To  reclify  the  foul : 
But  we  firft  after  Jefus  reach, 
And  richly  grafp  the  whcie. 

6  To  Jefus  join Td  we  all  that's  good 

From  him  our  head  derive: 
We  eat  his  flefh,  and  drink  his  blood* 
And  by  and  in  hira  live. 


'iiARTt    HTMNS.  i 


o; 


LXXVIII. 
4nd  the  Lord/hut  hi?n  in.    Gen.  vii.  16. 

*  "    \\ras  order'd  to  embark;. 
Eight  human  fouls,  a  littl-e  crew, 
Enter'd  on  board  his  ark. 

3  Tho'  ev*ry  part  he  might  fec.ure, 
With  bar,  or  bolt,  or  pin: 
To  make  the  prefervation  fare, 
Jehovah  (hat  him  in. 

3  The  waters  then  might  fwell  their  tides. 

The  billows  rage  and  roar; 
They  could  not  ftave  th'  aflaulted  fides, 
Nor  burft  the  batter'd  door. 

4  So  fouls,  that  into  Chrift  believe, 

Quicken'd  by  vital  faith, 

Eternal  life  at  once  receive, 

And  never  fhall  fee  death. 

j  In  his  own  heart  the  Chriftian  puis 
Notruft,  but  builds  his  hopes 
On  him  that  opes,  and  no  man  lhutr, 
And  fhutSj  and  no  man  opes* 

£  In  Chrifl  his  ark  he  fafely  rides, 
Not  wreck' d  by  death  cr  (ia$ 
paw  is  it  he  fo  fail  abides? 
The  Lo*d  has  fhut  him  in. 

D4 


LXXIX. 
Difference  and  Degrees  of  Fait£, 

t  TTE  that  hclleveih  Chrift,  the  Lord, 
MTX   Who  fhed  for  man  his  blood, 
By  giving  credence  to  his  word, 

Exalts  the  truth  of  God. 
So  far  he's  right,  but  let  him  know, 
Farther  than  this  he  muft  not  go. 

|  He  that  believes  en  Jefus  Chrift, 
Has  a  much  better  faith ; 
His  prophet  now  becomes  his  priefr; 

And  faves  hirn  by  his  death. 
By  Cb?ift  he  finds  his  fins  rorgiv'n* 
And  Chrift  has  made  him  heir  of  heav'c. 

3  But  he  that  into  Chrift  believes, 
Whataiich  faith  has  he! 
In  Chrift  he  moves,  and  acts,  and  lives> 

From  felf  and  bondage  free. 
He  had  xbt  Father  and  the  Son, 
For  Chrift  and  he  are  now  but  one. 

%  Till  we  att?.in  to  this  rich  faith, 
I  ho*  fafe,  we  are  not  found ; 
Tho'  we  are  fav'd  from  guilt  and  wrath^ 

Perfection  is  not  found. 
Lorr1.  make  our  usion  clofer  yet, 
Ahdfct  the  maxriage  be  complete!- 


BJRT't  tirMNS.  jo? 

LXXX. 

fioil  haft  guided  them,  in  thy Jlrength ,  unto  thy 
holy  habitation.    Exod.  xv.  13. 

2  "ft  /TISTAKEN  men  may  bawl 
XVI  Againft  the  grace  of  God, 
And  threat  with  final  fall 

The  purchafe  of  his  blood: 
J$ut  tho'  they  own  the  Saviour's  name* 
Fiom  him  fiich  gofpel  never  came. 

a  Shall  babes  in  Chrift,  bereft 

Of  God's  rich  gift  of  faith, 

Be  to  their  own  will  left, 

And  fin  the  fin  to  death? 
Shall  any  child  of  God  be  loft, 
And  Satan  cheat  the  Holy  Ghoflf 

3  Dark  unbelief  and  pride* 
With  Pbarifait  zeal, 
We  lay  you  all  afide, 
And  truft  afurer  feal- 

We  reft  our  fouls  in  Jefu's  word3 
And  give  the  glory  to  the  Lord. 

4  Led  forth  by  God's  free  grace, 
And  guided  in  his  pow'r, 

We  reach  his  holy  place, 

And  live  for  evermore. 
5Twas  this  place  Mofes  had  in  riewi 
Of  this  he  faig,  and  we  fing  to©* 


up  MART'S  HTMNS, 

LXXXI. 

The  young  lions  do  lack,  andfujfer  hunger :  Muf 
they  that  feek.  the  Lord  Jh all  not  want  any  goof 
thing.    Pfalm  xxxiv.  10. 

i  VE  lambs  of  Chrift's  fold, 
A    Ye  weaklings  in  faith, 
Who  long  to  lay  hold 

On  life  by  his  death: 
Who  fain  would  believe  him. 

And  in  your  beft  room 

Would  gladly  receive  him, 

But  fear  to  prefume: 

a  Remember  one  thing, 

(O!  may  it  fink  deep) 
Our  Shepherd  and  King 

Carts  much  for  his  fheep, 
Totruft  him  endeavor, 

The  work  is  his  own; 
He  makes  the  believer, 

And  gives  him  his  crown, 

g  Thofe  feeble  defires, 

Thofe  willifs  fo  weak, 
'Tis  Jefus  infpires, 

And  bids  you  fiill  feek. 
His  Spirit  will  cherifh 

The  life  he  firft  gave; 
You  never  fhall  perifh, 

If  Jefus  can  fave. 

4  Proud  lion?,  that  boaft 
When  Iufly  and  young, 


XJRTy»    HYMNS,  jn 

Soon  find,  to  their  coft, 

Self-confidence  wrong: 
Tormented  with  hunger 

They  reel  their  firength  vaia, 
For  famine  is  ftronger, 

And  gnaws  them  with  pain. 

But  lambs  are  preferv'd, 

Tho*  helpiefs  in  kind  j 
When  lions  areilarsr'd, 

Thsy  nourishment  find. 
Their  Shepherd  upholds  them, 

When  faint,  in  his  arms, 
And  feeds  them,  and  folds  them. 

And  guards  them  From  harms. 

\  Tho' fonsetimes,  we  fee, 

The  cafe  is  not  thus; 
B[ad  /hepherds  will  flee, 

Yet  what's  that  to  us? 
The  Shepherd  that  chofe  us 

Ma  ft  fureiy  be  good  ; 
Wh»  rather  than  lofe  us, 

Would  (bed  h  is  heart's  blood* 

i  Bleft  foul,  that  can'ftfay, 

"  Chrift^nly  i  feek> 
Wait  for  him  always. 

Be  conftant,  tho*  weak. 
The  Lord,  whom  thou  {beke^ 

Wilt  not  tarry  long. 
And  to  him  the  weakeft 

is  dear  as  the  itrcng. 


is  BAR!'1*   HYMN  Si 


LXXXII. 

He  hath  covered  me  ivith  the  Role  of '  Righieoui* 
fiefs,    lfa.  lxi.  10. 

i  f~\¥  all  the  creatures  God  has  made 
V-J  There  is  but  man  alone, 
That  ftands  in  need  to  be  array'd 
In  cov'rings  not  hi9  own. 


%  But  nature,  bears,  and  bull?,  and  fwine, 
With  fowls  of  ev'ry  wing, 
Are  much  more  warm,  more  fafe,  more  finej 
Than  man  their  fallen  king. 

3  Naked  and  weak,  we  want  a  fcreen 

Bat  when  with  cloaths  we're  deckt, 
Not  only  lies  our  fhame  unfeen, 
But  we  command  refpecl. 

4  Can  finful  fouls  then  ftand  unclad 

Before  God's  burning  throne, 
All  bare,  or  (what  is  quite  as  bad') 
In  cov'rings  of  their  own? 

I  Rich  gtrmetits  muft  be  worn  to  grace 
The  marriage  of  the  Lamb: 
Kot  nafty  rags,  to  ftink  the  place, 
Nor  nakednefs  to  fhame. 

6  Robes  of  imputed  rifihteoufnefs 
Will  gain  as  God's  efteem; 
No  naked  pride,  no  fig-leaf  drefs, 
How  fair  foe'er  itfeem. 

1  >Tis  call'd  a  Robe,  perhaps  to  mea!*i 
Man  has  by  natare  none; 


EARVs   HTMNS*  ti3 

It  grows  not  native  like  our  fkin> 
But  is  by  faith  put  on. 

A  linner  cloatb'd  in  this  rich  vefts 

And  garments  wam'd  in  blood, 
2s  rendered  fit  with  Chrift  to  feaft? 

And  be  the  guefl:  of  God. 


Lxxxnr. 

Free  Grace? 

YE  children  of  God, 
By  faith  in  his  Son* 
Redeemed  by  his  blood, 

And  with  him  made  one. 
This  union  with  wonder 

And  rapture  be  Teen, 
Which  nothing  fhall  funder8 
Without  or  within. 

This  pardon,  this  peace 

Which  none  can  deitroyj 
*J*kis  treafure  of  grace, 

This  heavenly  jo-y, 
The  v/orthlefs  may  crave  it« 

It  always  comes  f ree~ 
The  vileit  may  have  it, 

'Twas  given  to  ?}ie. 

'Tis  net  for  good  deeds. 
Good  tempers  norframes^ 

From  grace  it  proceeds",, 
And  all  is  the  Lamb's. 

Ko  goodnefs,  no  fitnefs 
fcxpsfts  h?  from  us; 


tit  fiAR7's   Utl'MNS: 

This  I  can  we!l  witnefs, 
For  none  can  be  worie. 

*  Sick  (inner  expect 

No  balm,  but  Chrift's  blood ' 
Thy  own  works  rejefl , 

The  badi  and  trie  good. 
None  ever  mj£c 

'T  hat  on  him  rely, 
tW  filthy  as  Mary,* 

Man  after),  or  I. 

*  Mary  Magdalene. 


rxxxiy. 

Go!)!s  various  Dealings  with  hi£ 
Childrln. 

J  TLTOW  hard  and  rugged  is  the  way 
Tofome  poor  pilgrim's  feet! 
In  all  they  do,  or  think,  or  fay, 
Theyoppofjtion  meet. 

3  Others  again  more  fmoothly  go 
Secur'd  from  hurn  ar.d  harms; 
Their  Saviour  lead!;  them  gently  through, 
Or  bears  them  in  hi?  am 

3  Faith  and  repentance  all  mull  find; 

But  vet,  we  daily  fee, 
Thty  differ  in  their  time,  and  kind, 
Duratien  and  degree. 

4  Some  long  repent,  and  late  belieye — 

But  when  their  fin's  fergiv'fij 


HART's   HTMNS.  u 

A  clearer  pafToortthey  receive, 
And  walk  with  joy  to  Heav'n. 

Their  pardon  fome  receive  at  firrt  ; 

fl  nd  then,  compelled  to  right, 
They  feei  their  latter  ftages  worft ; 

And  navel  much  by  night. 

Bat  be  cur  corjicls  thort  or  long  ; 

This  commonly  is  true, 
That  wherefoever^/a*^  isilrong, 

Repentance  is  fo  too. 


ixv. 

Dependence  on  Christ  alone. 

IF  ever  it  could  come  to  pais, 
That  flieep  of  Chrift  might  fall  away  j 
My  fickle  feeble  foul,  ; 

Would  fall  a  thoufand  times  a  day. 
Were  not  thy  love  as  firm  as  free, 
Thou  foon  wouJd'ii  take  it,  Lord,  fiom  rae. 

%  I  on  thy  promifes  depend, 

(  At  leaft,  I  to  depend  defire) 
That  thou  wilt  love  me  to  the  end  ; 
Be  with  me  in  temptation's  fire  : 
W  lit  for  me  work,  and  h:  me  too  ; 
Acd  guide  me  right;  and  bring  me  through. 

3  No  other  flay  have  I  befide, 
If  tfcefe  can  alter,  I  mud  fall ; 
Ilooktoriiee,  to  be  fuppiy'd 

With  life,  with  will*  with  power,  with  all. 


•a6  HART's   HYMNS. 

Rich  fouls  may  glory  in  their  {lore  i 
But  Jefas  wilirehete  the  poor. 


LXXXVI. 

In  that  day  there  Jhall  he  a  fountain  open:  J  to  ti. 
houfe  of  David,  and  to  the  inhabitants  of  Jen 
QtUiKifirJin  and  J&r  ur.cUamisfs.  Zecb.  xiii.  1 


rT*HE  fountain  of  Chriii 

i.    Affift  me  tofing, 
rJ  he  blood  of  our  Prieft, 

O'-zr  crucify'd  Kng  ; 
Which  perfectly  cleanies 

From  "fin  and  from  hltir; 
And  richly  difpenfes 

Salvation  and  health. 

This  fountain  Co  dear 

Ke'il  freely  impair  ; 
Uniock'd  by  thefpcar, 

It  £ufn'd  from  his  heart. 
With  blood  and  with  water, 

The  frit  to  atom  . 
To  cleanfe  us  the  Utter; 

The  fountains  but  oue. 

;  This  fountain  is  fuch 

(  A.s  thoufands  can  teli) 
Thf  moment  we  touch 

It's  breams,  we  are  well. 
All  water?  betide  them 

Are  full  of  the  curfe  . 
For  a!!  that  have  *ry'J  them 

Swell,  rot,  and  grow  wcwfe* 


HJRT's  HTMNS.  \iy 

This  fountain,  fick  foul, 

Recovers  thee  quite  ;t 
Bathe  here,  and  be  whole  ; 

Wafh  here,  and  be  white  l 
Whatever  difeafes 

Or  dangers  befa!. 
The  fountain  of  Jeius 

Will  rid  thee  of  all. 

This  fountain  from  guilt 

Not  only  makes  pure, 
And  gives,  foon  as  felt, 

Infallible  cure ; 
But  if  guilt  removed 

Return,  and  remain, 
It's  pow'r  may  be  prov'd 

.Again  and  again:. 

<rhis  fountain  iinfealM 
;■  Stands  open  for  all, 
|rhat  long  to  be  heal'd, 

The  great  and  the  fmall  ? 
Here's  ftrength  for  the  weakly, 
I    That  hither  are  led  ; 
Heie's  health  for  the  fickly  5 

Here's  life  for  the  dead. 

This  fountain j  tho'  rich, 

From  charge  is  quite  clear  jj 
The  poorer  the  wretch 

The  weieomer  here. 
„ome  needy,  come  guilty, 

Coase  loatn&me  and  bare  5 
iTou  can't  come  too  filthy-* 

Come  joft  as  you  are* 


n8  II JRT's    HYMNS* 

8  This  fountain  in  vain 

Has  never  been  tfy'd  , 
It  ti  kes  out  ail  Hun 

Whenever  apply'd : 
The  water  flows  fwedtly 

With  virtue  divine, 
To  cleanfe  foals  completely, 

Tho*  leprous  as  mine. 


LXXXVIT. 
Christ  the  Christian's  only  Hel 

i  QRACIOUS  God,  thy  chUdren  keep, 
Jefus,  guide  thy  filly  flu>ep  : 
Fix,  oh  fix,  oar  fickle  fouls  ; 
Lord,  direft  us,  we  are  fools. 

2  Bid  or  in  thy  rare  confide  ; 
Keep  us  near  thy  wounded  fide. 
From  thee  let  us  never  flir  ; 

Tor  thou  know'fl  how  foon  we  err. 

3  Lay  us  low  before  thy  feet, 
Safe  from  pride  and  felf-conceit. 

Be  the  language  of  our  fouls  ; 

M  Lore,  proteel  us;  we  are  fools.'* 

4  We  are  fools ;  but  thou  art  wife. 

of  David,  ope  our  <-« 
jfc  Hold  thy  Larrtbs  fecure  from  i 

In  thy  everlafting  arms. 

5  Oh  !  defend  thy  purchased  fl 

Sr'C-  t !!     ii 

I   uard  us  from  a  world  of  fi    ; 
toes  without,  and  worfe  within: 


KJRT's    HTMNS.  2*9 

ng'rous  do&rines  from  without, 

*s  and  ei  <  ,;i-    round  about; 
7rom  within  a  treach'ious  heart, 
Prone  to  take  t]ie  tempter's  parr. 

Look  upon  th'  unequal  war  ; 
Saviour  do  not  go  too  far. 
>aftyis  the  foe,  and  ftrong  ; 
javiour  do  not  tarry  long. 

}y  thy  word  we  fain  would  fleer; 
^ain  thy  Spirit's  dilates  hear. 
Save  us  from  the  rocks  and  Selves ." 
2>ave  us  chiefly  from  ourfelv«s. 

Never,  never,  may  we  dare 
What  we're  not  to  fay  we  are. 
M  1. .  us  weii  our  viiensis  know  ' 
Keep  us  very,  very  low. 

May  we  ail  our  wills  reugn, 
Quite  abforpt  and  loft  in  thine. 
Let  us  walk  by  thy  ri.t  ■ .  1         i 
Lord,  inftrucl  us ;  we  are  foois. 


LXXXVIII. 
Saving  Faith. 

npHE-finner  that  truly  believe-?, 
A    And  trufts  in  his  crucified  God, 
His  juftification  receives, 

Redemption  in  rullthro'lris  blood  ; 
thoufands  and  thotifands  oifoes 

Againft  him  in  malice  unite, 
Their  rage  he  thro'  Chrift  can  oppofef 

X  id  forth  by  the  Spirit  to  fight. 


\zo  HART's  HYMN  Si 

%  Not  aH  the  de'uftons  of  fin 

Shall  ever  feduce  him  to  death: 
He  now  has  the  witnefs  within, 

United  to  Jefus  by  faith. 
This  faith  fhali  eternally  fail, 

When  Jefus  fnall  fall  from  his  throne  t 
For  hel]  againfl  loth  mail  prevail  ; 

Since  Jefus  and  he  are  but  One, 

%  The  faith  that  unites  to  the  Lamb, 

Ami  brings fLch  ialvaiion  as  this, 
Is  more  than  mere  notion  or  name  ; 

The  work  of  God's  Spirit  it  is  : 
A  principle  aclive  and  young, 

That  lives  under  prefiure  and  load  ; 
That  makes  out  of  weaknefs  more  flrong^ 

And  draws  the  foul  upwards  to  God. 

4  It  treads  on  the  world  and  on  hell. 

It  vanquiihes  death  aoddefpair  5 
And  ( what  ftill  is  itranger  to  tell) 

It  overcomes  heaven  by  pray'r  ; 
Permits  a  viie  worm  of  the  dull 

With  God  ro  commune  as  a  friend  J 
To  hope  hi?  forgivenefsasjuft, 

And  look  for  his  Iovq  to  the  end. 

5  It  favs  to  the  mountains,  depart, 

That  {land  betwixt  God  and  the  foul. 
It  binds  up  the  broken  in  heart, 

And  makes  their  fote  co.afciences  whole  a 
Bids  fins  of  a  crimfon  like  dye 

Be  fpotlefs  as  fnow,  aad  as  white 
And  makes  fuch  a  (inner  ?s  i 

Ac  pure  as  an  angel  of  light, 


j 


fURT'*   HrMNS.  jvj 


LXXXIX. 

Thife  are  thy  which  came  out  of  preat  Tribula- 
tion ;  and  have  ivajked  their  Kobes^  and  7nade 
them  white ,  w  the  Blood  of  the  Lamb.  Rev. 
viu  14. 

c  T>RETHREN,  thofe  who  come  to  blifs, 
-O  Come  thro7  fore  temptations  : 
Let  us  ali  remembering  this, 
Pray  for  faith  and  patience. 

a  See  the  fuff'ring  church  of  Chrift> 
Gather'd  from  all  quarters  *. 
All  contain'd  in  that  red  lift, 
Were  not  murder'd  martyrs. 

S  Saints  who  feel  the  J;ad  of  fin, 
t   Yet  come  off  victorious, 

Suffer  martyrdom  within, 

Tho'it  feem  lefs  glorious. 

4  Th'  Holy  Ghoft  will  make  the  foul 
Feel  it's  fad  condition  ; 

For  the  fick  and  not  the  whole, 
Need  the  good  Phyfician. 

5  Of  that  mighty  multitude, 
Who  of  life  were  winners, 
This  we  fafely  may  conclude, 
All  were  wretched  finners. 

6  All  were  loatMome  in  God's  fight, 
Till  the  blood  of  jefus 

Waih'd  their  robes,  and  made  them  v. bite i 
Now  they  ling  his  praifes. 


122  HJRT'i    HYMNS. 

7  Ev'ry  k>ndred,  tongue,  and  tribe, 
From  then  tribulation 

Stand  ;  and  to  the  Lamb  afcribe  i 
the\r  free  i'alvation. 

2  Let  us  likew'fe  laud  the  Lamb  ; 
^nd  in  ail  affliction, 

Count  our  cnfe  with  theirs  the  fame> 
Without  contradiction. 


XC. 

For  the  kingdom  of 'God  is  not  in  nvord^but  in  pert* 
c-r.     i  C  >r.  iv.  20. 

I     A     Form  of  words,  tho'  e'er  fo  found, 
XjL  Can  never  (jaye  a  foul  ; 
The  EioJy  Ghoft  muft  give  the  wound, 
And  make  the  wounded  whole. 

a  Though  God's  elefih* is  a  truth, 
Small  comfort  there  I  fee, 
Till  f  am  told  by  God's  own  mouth, 
he  has  chofen  me. 

3  Sinners,  I  read,  are  juftiiied 

By  faith  in  Jelu's  b! 
But,  when  to  arc  that  blood's  appliei> 
'Tis  then  it  does  me  good* 

4  To  perltverance  I  agree. 

The  thing  to  me  is  clear  : 
Becaufe  the  Lord  has  promis'd  ?net 
That  I  fhali  perfevere. 

5  Imputed  righteoufnefs  I  owq 

A  doctrine,  molt  divine  , 


HART's    HTMNS: 

For  Jefus  to  roy  heart  makes  known 
That  all  his  merit's  mifie. 

That  Chri$  is  God,  I  can  avouch, 

And  for  his  people  cares  ; 
Since  [  have  prayed  to  him  as  iueh, 
And  he  has  heard  my  pray'rs. 

That  firmer  s  black  as  hell,  by  Chi  ill 
Are  fav'd,  I  know  full  well ; 

Fori  his  mercy  have  nctmifs'd, 
And  I  am  black  as  hell. 

Thus  Chriftians glorify  the  Lord? 

His  Spirit  joins  with  ours. 
In  bearing  witnefs  to  his  word* 

With  all  its  iaving  pow'rs, 


Blsjjcd  arc  they  that  ?no;:rn  :   For  they  jhall  be 
comforted.    Matth.  v.  4« 

I  /"^HRIST  is  the  friend  of  fitm^rs  i 

\j   Be  that  forgotten  never. 

A  woun 

And  not  a  whole, 
Becomes  a  true  believer. 
To  fee  fin,fmarts  but  flightly  \ 
To  own  with  lip-confeilion3 

Is  eaiier  ftill  ; 

But  oh  i  to  fee!, 
Cuts  deep  beyond  expreflion; 

■2  1  ruft  nottoje-yous  fanciesj 
Light  hearts,  or  fmcoth  behavisj, 

E2 


II*  HART's  HTMNS* 

Signers  caa  fay 

(And  none  but  they) 
"  How  precious  is  the  Saviour  !** 
Then  hail  ye  happ;/  mourners, 
How  bleft.  ycur  ftate  to  come  i»  I 

Ye  foon  will  meet 

With  comfort  fweet ; 
It  is  the  Lords  own  picmife; 

g  The  contrite  heart  and  broken 
God  will  not  91've  to  ruin. 

This  Facrifice 

He'll  not  defpife  ; 
For  'tis  his  Spirit's  doing; 
Then  hail*  ye  happy  mourners* 
Who  pafs  thro'  tribulation. 

Sin's  filth  and  guilt, 

Perceiv'd  and  fek, 
Make  known  Cod's  great  falvation. 

4.  Dry  do^rine  cannot  fave  us, 
Blind  zeal,  or  faffe  devotion. 

The  feebleft  pray'r, 

If  faith  be  there,  , 
Exceeds  all  empty  notion. 
Then  hail,  ye  happy  mourners  ) 
Te  will  at  lait  be  winners. 

By  Jdu's  blood, 

The  righteous  God 
ts  reconcii'd  to  finners. 


njRT's    HTMN9.  m 

XCII. 

The  Spirit  thai  dnuelletb  in  us  lujieth  to  envy. 
James  iv.  5-. 

Tff  TTTHAT  tongue  can  fully  tell 

VV    That  Chriftian's  grievous  load. 
Who  would  do  all  things  well, 
A«d  walk  the  ways  of  God  ; 
But  feels  within 
Foul  envy  lurk, 
And  luft,  and  work, 
Engend'ring  fin  ? 

2  Poor,  wretched,  worthlefs  worm  I 
In  what  fad  plight  I  ftand  1 
When  good  I  would  perform, 
Tfcen  evil  is  at  hand. 

My  leprous  foul 

Is  all  unclean, 

My  heart  obfcene, 

My  nature  fool. 

$  To  trufr.  to  Cftrifl  alone, 
By  thoufand  dangers  fcar'd, 
And  righteoufnefs  have  noae» 
Is  fomething  very  hard. 

Wnate'er  men  fay, 

The  needy  know 

It  mull  be  fo  ; 

It  is  the  way. 

4  Thou  all-fufficient  Lamb, 
Cod  hleft  for  evermore, 
We  glory  in  thy  name  , 
For  thine  is  all  the  newer* 


*26  HARTs    HYMN 

Stretch  forth  thv  hand, 
/■rA  held  as  faft; 
Our  £r$  and  laft, 
In  iliee  we  Hand. 


XCIIJ. 

I  will  hear  the  indignation  of  the  Lord,  becaufe  I 
have  finned  again)}  bim.    Mic  vii.  9. 

1  POME,  ve  backlldrng  fbns  of  God, 
^"  (For  many  fuch  there  are) 
Who  long  tfc?  paths  of  fan  haye  trod, 

Come,  calf  away  deipair. 
Return  to  Jefus  Chnft  j  and  fee, 
There's  mercy  ftiil  for  fuch  as  we. 

a  True,  we  cannot  pretend  to  much 

Of  ufefulnefs  or  fruit: 
But  vet  the  love  of  Chrilt  is  fuch* 

We  flili  retain  the  root. 
Returning  prodigals  &ail  find, 
Tho*  they  are  bale,  their  Father's  kind, 

3  They  who  have  never  gone  aftiay, 

Since  mil:  the  Lord  they  knew, 
Walk  in  a  much  more  pleafant  way, 

While  we  our  folly  rue  : 
But  tho*  we  feern  to  differ  thus, 
They  can't  be  perfect  without  uj. 

4  The  indignation  of  the  Lord 

A  while  we  will  endure  ; 
Fo-  we  have  Gnn*d  acainft  his  wcrd  > 
Bat  ftiii  his  grace  is  fare. 


C BART' s    KTMN5.   ■    •     iff 

*TJs  all  a  gift  ;  let  no  man  boaft  ; 
For  Jeius  came  to  fave  the  /*//. 


XCIV. 

/*;*  tie  Wa§%  and  the  Truth,  and  the  Life, 
Johnxiv.  6. 

J  Am,  faith  (Thrift,  the  V/ay. 


Now  if  we  credit  Him, 
All  other  paths  irmft  lead  ailray, 
How  fair  foe'er  they  feem. 

ft  lam,  faith  Chrift,  the  Truth. 
Then  all  that  lacks  this  tell 
Proceed  it  from  an  angel's  mouth, 
Is  bat  a  lie  at  beft. 

3  I  am,  faith  Chrift,  the  Life. 

Let  this  befeen  by  faith, 
It  fellows  without  further  ifcrife, 
That  all  betides  is  death* 

4  If  what  thofe  words  aver, 

The  Holy  Ghoft  apply; 
The  fimpleft  Chriftian  (hall  not  err, 
Nor  be  deceivd,  nor  die, 

% 


xcv. 

Love  not  the  World,     i  John  ii.  15. 

l  1\/T  Y  brethren,  why  thefe  anxious  fears, 
jLYl.  Thefe  warm  purfuits,  and  eager  cares, 

For  earth,  and  all  its  gilded  toys  ? 
If  the  whole  world  you^could  pouefs, 


i23  II  ART  %   HYMNS, 

It  might  enchant ;  it  could  not  blefs  : 
Faife  hopes,  vain  pleasures,  and  light  joys  J 

s  Remember,  brethren,  whofe  you  are  ; 
Whofe  cauife  you  own :  whole  name  you  bear. 

Is  it  not  bis >  who  could  not  ca!l 
His  own  (tho'  he  had  all  things  made) 
A  place  whereon  to  lay  his  bead  ? 
A  femnt,  tho'  the  Lord  of  all. 

3  If  wealth,  or  honor,  power,  or  fame, 
Can  bring  you  nearer  to  the  Lamb, 

Then  foliow  thefe  with  all  your  might  l 
But  if  they  oni  y  make  you  dray, 
And  draw  your  hearts  from  him  away: 

Reflect,  in  what  you  thus  delight. 

4  Jefus  hath  faid  (who  furely  knew 
Much  better  what  we  oaght  to  do, 

Than  we  can  e'er  pretend  to  fee) 
"  No  thought  e'en  for  the  morrow  take." 
And  "  He  that  will  not,  for  my  lake, 

"  Relinquilh  ad's  unworthy  me." 

5  Let  no  vain  words  your  fouls  deceive  ; 
Nor  Satan  tempt  you  to  believe 

The  world  and  God  can  hold  their  parts. 
True  Chriftians  long  for  Chuff,  alone. 
The  facrifices  God  will  own, 

Are  breken,  not  divided,  hearts. 

f  Great  things  we  are  not  here  to  crave  ; 
But,  if  we  food  and  raiment  have, 

Should  learn  to  be  therewith  content. 
Into  the  world  we  nothing  brought  \ 


JfJRrs   HTMNS.  12 f 

tior  can  we  from  it  carry  ought : 
Then  walk  the  way  yo\ir  Matter  went. 


XCVI. 
For  a  public  Fast, 


>  T   ORD,  look  on  all  afTembled  here> 
J— «  Who  in  thy  prefence  iland, 
To  offer  up  united  pray'r 
For  this  our  finful  land. 

3  Oft  have  we  each  in  private  pray'd 
Onr  country  might  iind  grace. 
New  hear  the  fame  petitions  made 
in  this  appointed  place. 

3  Or,  if  amoogrl  n?  feme  be  met, 

So  carelefs  ci  their  fin 
They  have  not  cry'd  for  mercy  yet-, 
Lord,  let  them  now  begin. 

4  Thou,  by  whole  death  poor  finner-s  live. 

By  whom  their  pray'rs  focceed, 
Thy  Spir't  of  fupplication  give, 
Aad  we  ihail  pray  indeed. 

5  We  will  not  Hack,  nor  give  thee  reft  ; 

But  importune  thee  fo, 
That,  till  we  (hail  be  by  thee  bleft, 
We  will  sot  let  thee  go, 

$  Great  God  of  Hofls,  deliv'rance  bring. 
Guide  thofe  that  hold  che  helm  j 
Support  the  ftate,4preferve  the  king, 
Aad  fffart  the  guilty  rralai. 


fja  KJRT's  HrMttS. 

7  Or  mould  the  dread  decree  be  pail, 
i  we  rhuft  feel  thy  rod  ; 
May  faith  and  patience  hold  us  fafi 
To  our  correcting  God. 

S  Whatever  be  our  deftin'd  cafe, 
Accept  us  in  thy  Son. 
Give  us  his  gofpeJ  and  his  grace, 
And  then  thy  will  be  done. 


XCVII. 

For  he  hath  made  him  to  be  Jin  for  uu  who  knew  no 
fin  ;  that  imp  might  he  mads  the  Righteoufnefs  cf 
God  in  him.     %  Cor.  v.  %  i. 

i  TI/-HEN  f,  by  faith,  my  Maker  fee,1 
v*     Jn  weaknefs  and  diftrefs, 
Brought  down  to  that  fad  ilate  for  mej 
Which  angels  can't  expxefs  ; 

3  When  that  great  God .  to  whom  1  go 
For  help,  amaz'd  I  view  ; 
By  fin  and  forrow  funk  as  low 
As  1— and  lower  too  ; 

3  (For  ail  our  fins  we  his  may  o*!!, 

As  he  fuilain'd  their  weight  : 
How  huge  the  heavy  load  of  all, 
When  only  mine's  fj  great ! ) 

4  Then,  ravifh'd  with  the  rich  belief 
•  Of  fuchalove  as  this, 

I'm  loft  in  wonder,  meit  with  grief* 
And  faint  beneath  the  blifs. 


HJRT's   HTMNS,  1.31 

Prcftrate  I  fall,  amam'd  of  doubt, 

And  wurfhip  love  divine. 
Thus  may  I  always  be  devout; 

Be  this  religion  mine. 

In  this  alone  I  can  confide : 

Here's  righteoufnefs  eaough, 
What's  all  the  boaft  of  nature's  pride  ! 

What  unfubilantial  fluff ! 

7  Rounds  of  dead  fervice,  forms,  and  ways, 
Which  feme  fo  much  efteem, 
Compai'd  with  this  ftupendous  grace, 
What  trivial*  traih  they  ieem  ! 

%  Lord,  help  a  worthlefs  worm,  fo  weak 
He  can  do  nothing  good. 
May  aii  I  ac%  or  think,  ir  fpeak, 
Beipnnkied  with  thy  blood. 

*  Mean  or  common* 


xcviir. 

For  the  Law  was  given  by  Mo/es  ;  hut  Grace  and 
"Truth  came  By  Jefus  Chriji.    John  i,  17, 

%   |S  then  the  faw  of  God  untrue, 
-i  Which  he  by  Mofes  gave  ? 
No  :  but  to  take  it  in  this  view, 
That  it  has  power  to  fave. 

%  Legal  obedience  were  complete^ 
•  ild  we  the  lav/  fulfil  ; 
But  no  man  ever  did  fo  yet. 
And  no  man  ever  will. 


i32  HJRTs    HYMNS. 

g  The  law  was  never  meant  to  give 
New  ftreugtri  to  man's  loft  race. 
We  cannot  aft  before  we  live  ; 
And  life  proceeds  from  grace. 

4  But  grace  and  truth  by  Chriftare  given, 
To  him  muft  Mofes  bow. 
Grace  fits  the  new-born  foul  for  heaven, 
And  truth  informs  us  how. 

g  By  Chrift  we  enter  into  reft ; 
And  triumph  o'er  the  fa!!. 
Whoe'er  would  be  completely  bleftj 
Mufctruft  to  Chrift  for  all. 


XCIX. 
Let  Godhe  true*  hit  every  man  a  liar.  Rom.  Hi.  4. 

I       TPHE  God  I  truft, 

i  Is  true  and  juft, 
His  mercy  hath  no  end, 

Himfelf  hath  faid, 

My  ranfom  s  paid  ; 
And  I  on  him  depend. 

a      Then  why  fo  fad, 
Myfonl?  rho'bad, 
Thou  haft  a  friend  that's  good  % 
He  bought  thee  dear  ; 
(Abandon  fear) 
He  bought  thee  with  his  bloodj 

3      Sorichacoft 
Can  ne'er  be  loft, 


HJRT's   HTMNS;  133 

Though  faith  be  tried  by  fire, 

Keep  Chrift  in  view: 

Let  God  be  true, 
And  ev'ry  man  a  liar. 


C. 

Come  and  weixoiME  to  J "esui, Christ* 

I  /"^OME,  ye  finners,  poor  and  wretched* 
Kji   Waak  and  wounded,  fickaTid  fore, 
Jfrfus  ready  (lands  to  fave  you, 

Full  of  pity  join'd  with  pow'r. 
He  is  able,  he  is  able,  he  is  able, 

He  is  willing,  doubt  no  more. 

#  Ho!  ye  needy,  come  and  welcome* 

God's  free  bounty  glorify: 
True  belief,  and  true  repentance, 

Ev'ry  grace  that  brings  us  nigh, 
Without  money,  without  money,  without  mo^ 

Come  to  jefus  Chrift  and  buy.  Lney, 

^  Let  not  ccnfcience  make  you  linger, 
Nor  of  fknefs  fondly  dream ; 
All  the  fltaefs  he  requireth, 

Is  to  fee!  your  need  of  him. 
This  he  gives  you,  this  he  gi?es  you,  this  k$ 
gives  you — 
'Tis  the  Spirit's  rifing  beam, 

£  Come  ye  weary,  heavy  laden, 

Bruis'd  and  mangled  by  the  fall? 
If  ye  tarry  till  you're  better, 
You  will  never  come  at  aij,. 


JIJ4  H.lRT's    HYMNS. 

Not  the  righteous,  not  the  righteous,  not  the 

righic 
Sinners  Jefus  came  to  call. 

5  View  him  grov'ling  in  the  garden  ; 
Lo  !  your  Maker  pro/trace  lies: 
On  the  bloody  tr?e  behold  hini, 
Hear  him  cry,  t  dies  ; 

//  is  finijh  d ;  it  is  finijh  <  jhiljlrd  i 

■-er,  will  not  this  fuifice? 

4  Lo!  thMnxArnate  God afcended, 

Pleads  the  merit  of  his  blood  : 
Venture  on  hirn,  venture  vhoiiy, 

no  othtr  trait  intrude. 
None  but  re  hut  Jefus,  none  but  jerai. 

Can  do  helpiefs  tinners  good. 

g  Saints  and  angels  join'd  in  concert> 

Sing  of  the  Lamb; 

While  the  biifsful  feats  of  heaven 

Sweetlv  echo  w:th  his  na 
Hallelujah!  hallelajah !  hallelujahl 
Sinners  here  may  fing  the  fame. 


CI. 

And  tie  Lr<rd  nvmt  bis  way*  asfdottits 
communing  nuith  Abraham^  and  Abraham  re 

turned  unto  his  place*     Gen.  xviii.  33. 

I  TIT  HEN  Jefus  with  his  mighty  love 
Vifus  my  troubled  breaft, 
My  doubt?  fubfide,  my  fears  remove, 
And  I'm  completely  bleft. 


HJRT'z   HTMNS.  13 

a  1  love  the  Lord  with  mind  And  heart* 
His  people  and  his  ways  ; 
Envy,  and  pride,  and  lull  depart, 
And  ftU  his  works  I  praife. 

3  Nothing  bat  Jeius  I  efteem  ; 

My  foul  is  then  fmcere  : 
And  ev'iy  thing  that's  dear  to  him, 
To  me  is  alio  dear. 

4  But  ah  !  when  thefe  Ibort  vifits  end, 

Though  notquite.left  aione, 
J  mifs  the  prefence  of  my  Friend, 
or  1  \  comfort's  gone. 

my  own  fad  place  return, 
./  wretched  ftate  to  feel : 
»i  a;>n  faint,  and  mope,  and  mourn8 
And  am  but  barren  ftiil. 
6  More  frequent  let  thy  vifits  he, 
Or  let  them  longer  Jait ; 
I  can  do  nothing  without  the?, 

te  haile,  my  G*d,  mate  hafte. 


err. 

Sm,  bsof '  goodchf.c,  ,  thy  fins  he  J 
Matth.  ix,  2. 

TTOW  high  a  privilege  'ris  tokrrow 

1A  Our  fi  iv'n  i 

To  bear  abdut  !  below, 

This  fpeeial  grant  of  hcay'n  i 
To  look  on  t  .;:,  when  funk  in  fears  | 

- ?hite  r,    ... 

ing  co/dia!  cheers, 

«^cd  makes  temptations  light ! 


136  BART'S   Hl'MNS: 

3  Oh!  what  is  honor,  wealth,  or  mirth, 

*  0  this  well-grounded  peace! 
How  poor  are  all  the  goods  of  earth, 
To  fuch  a  gift  as  this! 

4  This  is  a  treafure  rich  indeed, 

Which  none  but  Chrift  can  give: 
Of  this  the  beft  of  men  have  n»ed— 
This  I,  the  worft,  receive. 


CIIL 
Another, 

1  T>LESSED  are  they  whofe  guilt  is  gone, 
JD  Whofe  fins  are  wauYd  away  with  blaod* 
Whofe  hope  is  fixt  on  Chrift  alone— 
Whom  Chrift  hath  reconcii'd  to  God. 

a  Bleft  is  the  man  to  whom  the  Lord 
Iniquity  will  not  impute;  ' 
Who  vent'ring  on  his  Saviour's  word, 
Of  faith  enjoys  the  peaceful  fruit. 

3  Tho*  trav'ling  thro' this  vale  cf  tears, 
He  many  a  fore  temptation  meet: 
The  Holy  Ghofi  this  witnefs  bears, 
He  ftands  in  Jefus  ftill  complete. 

4  This  pearl  of  price  no  works  can  claim  j 
He  that  finds  this  is  rich  indeed: 

This  pure  white  ftone  contains  a  name, 
Which  none,  but  who  receives,  can  read. 

j  This  precious  gift,  this  bond  of  love, 
The  Lord  oft  gives  his  people  here: 
Bat  what  we  all  fhall  be  above, 
iJoih  not,  my  brethren,  yet  appear. 


HJRT's  HTMNS,  137 

6  Yet  this  we  fafely  may  believe, 

'Tis  what  no  words  can  e'er  exprefs; 
What  faints  themfeives  cannot  conceive* 
And  brighteft  angels  can  but  guefs. 


CIV. 

/r  not  this  a  brand  plucked  out  of  the  fir?. 
Zechariah.  iii.  z. 

THUS  faith  the  Lord  to  tfaefe  that  ftand, 
And  wait  to  hear  his  gieat  command; 
**  I  have  a  (inner  to  renew, 
€<  And  lo!  this  charge  I  give  to  you, 
"  Pull  his  polluted  garments  off, 
«'  Here,  foul,  here's  raiment  rich  enougfe: 
'■'  Cloath  thee  with  rightenufnefs  divine, 
4i  Not  creature's  righteoufnefs,  but  mine. 
'*  Satan,  avaunt— ftand  off,  ye  foes; 
"  In  vain  ye  rail,  in  vain  oppofe; 
"  Your*  cancetl'd  claim  no  more  obtrude— 
•'  He's  mine,  I  bought  him  with  my  blood. 

"  Sinner,  thou  ftand'ft  in  me  complete, 

"  Tho,  they  accufe  thee,  1  acquit; 

"  I  bore  for  thee  the  avenging  ire, 

"  And  pluck'd  thee  burnkig  from  the  fire.** 


CV. 

Condefcend to  men  of  low  ejlate.  R001.  xii.  i& 
-t  npO  you  who  (land  in  Chriil  fo  feft, 
"*■    Ye  know  your  faith  fhall  ever  laft; 


i3S  HJRT's    HYMNS. 

The  Lord  oh  whom  that  faith  depends, 
kind  important  meflage  fends. 

^ht  exulting  thoughts  arife, 
Your  weaker  brethren  to  defpife, 
Remember  all  to  me  are  dear, 
Who  moll  is  favor'd,  moll  mould  baar. 

$  If  ftronpr  thyfelf,  fupport  the  weak ; 
If  weli,  be  tender  to  the  fick  : 
To  babes  I  oft  reveal  my  mind, 
And  they  who  feek  my  race  (hall  find. 

4  If  faith  b?  fir-  :11  as  true, 
Then  ftrivethat  iove  may  be  fa  too  : 
Boatlnot,  but  meek  and  lowly  be, 
The  humbleil  foul  is  moft  iike  me. 

5  Should  I,  difpleas'd,  my  tare  but  tarn, 
Ye  fadly  "  v  mourn  : 

Who  now  feem  bell,  would  foon  be  wool  } 
1  often  make  the  Iai.1  the  lirft. 

6  Encourage  fouls  that  on  me  wait, 
And  Hoop  to  thofe  oi  low  eftate  : 

Contempt,  or  flight,  I  can't  approve, 
1>^  I  JVC  your  aim,  for  J  am  love. 


CVI. 

0  wretched  mar,  that  I  g:  : 

frvn  the  body  of  this  death?  Rom.  vii.  24. 

1  T 'TOW  fore  a  pi. 

The  Chriftian  cries  :. ', 

Event  ho'  re  leas 'd  hum  [ 


UART'%    HTMNS.  139 

I  O  wretched,  wretched  man  ! 
What  horrid  fce*nes  I  view! 
I  find,  alas  !  do  ail  I  can, 
'Ihatl  can  nothing  do. 

n  good  I  won  Id  perform, 

Thro'  fear  cf  (name  I  flop  : 

Corruption  rifes,  Jike  a  it  orm? 

blafts  the  promis'd  crop. 

4  Cf  pi,?ce  if  I'm  in  qaeft, 

Or  love  my  thoughts  engage, 
Envy  arid  anger  in  my  bf 

at  moment  rife  and  rage. 

5  When  for  an  humble  mind 

I*o  God  I  poar  my  pniy'r, 
I  look  into  my  heart,  and  find 
That  ptide  will  ftifl  be  tfeere. 

6  Ho-"  long,  dear  Lord,  bow  long 

Deiiv'rance  muft  I  feek; 
And  fight  with  foes  fo  very  ftro.ng, 
My  f elf  fo  very  weak  ? 

f  I'll  bear  th'  unequal  ftrife, 
And  wage  the  war  within  : 
Si.  ,  that  puts  an  ettd  to  lif^ 

Shall  put  an  end  to- fin. 


CVII. 

I  thank  God  through  Jefus  Chr\Jlc:ir  Lord. 

Rom  vii.  25. 

■j  •rTH(V  void  <bf  all  that5.-  good, 
***    And  vtry,  very  poor, 


E.3 


140  HJRT's  HTMNS, 

Thro'  Chrtft  I  hope  to  be  renew 'd, 
And  Jive  for  evermore. 

2  I  view  my  own  bad  heart, 

And  fee  fuch  evils  there, 
The  fight  with  horror  makes  me  ftarfj 
And  tempts  me  to  defpair: 

3  Then  with  a  finale  eye 

I  look  to  Chrift  alone*; 
And  on  his  righteoufnefs  rely, 
TW  1  myfclf  have  none. 

4  By  virtue  of  his  blood 

The  Lord  declares  me  clean; 
'I  has  ferves  nvy  mind  trie  law  of  God? 
Myflclh  the'iaw  of  fin. 


CVIII. 

Thoufoalt  guide  me  with  thy  counfth 
Pfalm  Ixxiii.  24. 

1  Tm^ENE'ERIraakefomefuddenftcp, 
V  V     (For  many  fuch  1  make) 
And  cannot  fee  the  cloud  clear'd  up, 
Nor  know  which  paih  to  take.: 

a  I  to  my  Saviour  fpeed  my  way, 
To  teii  my  dubious  ftate: 
Then  liften  what  the  Lord  will  fay, 
And  hope  to  follow  that. 

3  If  Jcfus  feem  to  hide  his  face, 
What  anxious  fears  I  feci! 
But  if  he  deign  to  wbifper  pu.'^.?? 
I'm.  happy,  aii  is  weii. 


ff ART'S    HTMNS.  tfj 

4  Confirm'd  bv  one  foft  fecret  word* 

I  feek.  no  farther  light; 
But  walk;  depending  on  my  Lord, 
By  faith,  and  not  by  fight. 

5  Of  friends  and  counfellors  bereft, 

I  often  htit  him  Tay; 
c<  Decline  not  to  the  right  nor  left* 
"  Go  onjlo,  here's  the  way/3 

6  Weak  in  myfeif,  in  him  I'm  ftrongj 

His  Spirit's  roice  I  hear: 
The  way  I  walk  cannot  be  wrong, 
If  Jefus  be  but  there. 

7  He  is  my  helper  and  my  guides 

I  tnift  to  him  alone; 
hlo  other  helps  hare  I  befide> 
I  venture  all  on  one. 


CIX. 

'Then  he  turned  his  face  to  the  vuall,  and  prayed 
unto  the  Lord.     %  Kings  xx.  z. 

I  1ZING  Hezekiah  lay  diieas'd, 
XV  With  ev'ry  dang'rous  fymptom  fei'z'd, 

Beyond  the  cure  of  art, 
With  languid  pulfe,  and  ftrength  decay'd, 
With  fpirits  funk,  and  foul  difmay'd, 
/ind  ready  to  depart. 

%  His  friends  defpair,  his  fervants  droop* 
The  learned  leech  can  give  no  hope; 
Afhlgns  of  life  are  fled  s 


543-  HART's    HTMXS. 

When,  lo  !  the  feer  Ifaiah  came, 
With  word's  to  damp  th'  expiring  fianiej 
And  fhike  the  dying  dead. 

t'ring  the  royal  Patient's  room, 
He   bus  lenounc'd  the  dreadful  doom : 

li  Of  flattVing  hopes  beware; 
"  God's  mtffenger  behold  I  ftancl ; 
%t  Thus  faith  the  Lord,  thy  death's  at  hand  : 

"  Prepa  e>  O  king,  prepare." 

4  Where  is  the  man,  whom  words  likethefe 
(  rho'  free  before  from  ail  difeaie) 

Wouid  not  deject  to  death  ? 
Fav'rue  of  heav'n!  in  thee  we  fee 
The  miracies  of  pray  r — in  thee 
Th>  omnipotence  of  faith, 

§  Methinks  I  h-far  the  hero  fay, 
li  And  mull  my  life  be  fnatck'daway, 

fore  I'm  fit  to  diet 
"  Can  pray'r  revetfe  the  ftern  decree, 
<(  And  fave  a  wretch  condemn'd  like  me  I 
*'  it  may— at  leaft  I'd  try. 

6  <c  Ye  damps  of  death  that  chill  me  thro', 
*l  God's  prophet,  and  prediction  too, 

"  I  rnuft  withftand  ye  all. 
li  Both  heav'p  and  earth  awhile  begone; 
"  A  turn  me  to  the  Lord  alone, 
lc  And  face  the  filent  wail." 

aid,  ?.nd  weeping  pour'd  apray'r, 
That  conqner'd  pain,  'emov'ddeipair 

With  ail  it's  heavy  load  : 
Re  :orceof  deatli's  attack, 

Brought  the  recanting  prophet  bau:, 

And  tufa'd  the  mind  to  God. 


CX, 

But  thoufoalt  know  hereafter,  John  siii.  yl 

t  T>  IGHTEOUS  are  the  works  of  God, 
^  Aii  his  ways  are  hcly ; 
Juit  his  judgments,  fit  his  rod 
To  correal  our  foJJy. 

%  All  his  dealings  wife  and  good, 
Uniform,  tho5  various : 
Tho'  they  -feera,  by  reaibn  view?3, 
Crofs,  and  quits  conuarious* 

3  Thefe  are  truths, -and  happy  he, 

Who  can  well  receive  them. 
Brethren,  tho*  we  cannot  fee, 
Still  we  mould  believe  them. 

4  Why  thro'  darkfocne  paths  we  go* 

We  may  know  no  reaibn  ; 
But  we  fhail  hereafter  know, 
Each  in  his  due  feafon. 

5  Could  we  fee  how  all  is  right, 

vVhere  were  room  for  evidence  I 
But  by  faith,  and  not  by  fight, 
Chiiitiass  yield  obedience. 

6  Letall fruitful  fearches  go, 

Which  perplex  and  teaze  us  : 
We  determine  nought  to  know, 
ButabUsding  Jefus. 

E4 


}    .  ffJRTU    HTMKt. 

CXI. 

'Bljjfed  be  ye  poor.    I*uke  vl.  ac. 

i  T  ORD,  when  I  hear  my  children  talk, 
•^  (And  HheKeve  tis  often  true) 
How  with  delight  thy  ways  they  walk, 
-;,rid  gladly  thy  commandments  do. 

St,  In  my  own  breaft  I  look  and  read 
.Accounts  fo  very  diff'rent  there, 
That,  hud  I  not  thy  blood  to  plead, 
Each  fight  would  fink  me  to  delpair* 

5  Needy,  and  naked,  and  unclean, 
JEmpty  of  ^ood,  and  full  of  ill, 
A  lifelefs  himp  of  loath  fecie  (in, 
Without  the pow'r to  act  or  will! 

4  I  fee-1  my  fainting  fpirits  droop, 
My  wretched  Jeannefs  I  deplore, 
*liil  gladdep/d  with  a  gleam  of  hope 
From  this—'*  The  Lord  has  blefe  tks  peer  /-» 

5  Then,  while  I  make  my  fecret  moan* 
Upwards  I  cair.  my  eyes,  and  i'cz, 
Tho'  I  have  nothing  of  my  own, 
My  trealure  is  immenie  in  thee. 

6  Still  may  I  keep  thy  love  in  view, 
Lean  there,  ncr  envy  thole  that  run: 
Still  truft  to — not  what  I  can  do, 
But  what  th^felf  haft  for  me  done. 

p  Mv  treafure  is  thy  precious  bk>#d, 
Fix  there  my  heart,  and  for  the  reft, 
Under  thy  forming  hands,  my  God, 
Ghz  me  that  frame  which  Uiou  iik'ft  b«& 


CXII. 

A  GENERAL  ADMONITION. 
E  pRETHREN,  why  toil  ye  thus  for  toySj 
•*-*  And  reckontrafa  for  tresfare; 
Call  gay  deceptions  (olid  joys, 
Intoxication  pleafure? 
s  If  mora  renVd  amufements  plsafe, 
A  s  knowledge,  arts,  or  learning; 
A  moment  puts  an  end  to  thefe, 
And  fometimes  fhort's  the  warning, 
3  What  bairn  could  wretches  ever  find 
In  wit  to  heal  affliction  ? 
Or  who  can  dire  a  troubled  mindj 
With  all  the  pomp  of  diclion? 
m  Reflect,  what  trifles  ye  purfue 
So  anxious  and  fo  heedfnl ; 
I    For  after  all  (you'll  find  it  true) 

rl  here  is  but  one  thing  needful, 
J5  Cod  in  hisfcriptures  to  repeat 
His  wiil  has  condefcended; 
What  there  is  faid  he  will  fulfil, 
Tho*  man  may  be  offended. 
6  This  written  word  with  revVenee  treat* 
Join  pray'r  with  each  infpsdionj 
And  be  not  wife  in  felf-conceit, 

Tis  felly  to  perfection. 
True  wifdoro,  of  eeleflial  birth* 
Can  both  infci  udt  and  cherifh  ; 
Other  attainments  are  of  earth, 
And  ali  that's  earth  muftperifh. 
g  The  chief  concern  of  fall'o  mankind 
Should  be  to  gain  God's  favor; 
What  fafety  can  the  finner  findj 
before -he  find  a  Saviour.? 


'145  IlJRT's   HYMNS. 

9  This  Saviour  mufl  be  one  that  can 
From  fin  and  death  reieafe  us; 
Make  up  the  breach  'twixt  G  >d  and  map; 
Which  none  can  do  but  Jfefus. 

io  Jefut  is  judge  of  quick  and  dead, 
And  there  is  none  befide  him  : 
Whether  his  pow'r  we  flight  or  dread, 
Adore  him,  or  deride  hirn. 

ix  Whate'er  rre  judge  ourfeives,  we  motif 
Or  ftafld*  or  fall  by  his  doom  : 
And  the\  that  in  this  J  si  us  truft, 
Have  found  eternal  vvifdom. 

il  Mercy,  and  love,  from  Jefus  felt, 
Can  heal  a  wounded  fpirit ; 
Mercy,  that  triumphs  over  guilt, 
And  love  that  feeks  no  merit. 

13  Then  kits  the  Son,  for  from  his  wrath 
No  wifdon  can  deliver : 
Clofe  in  with  Chrift  by  faying  faith, 
And  God's  your  friend  for  crer. 


CXIII. 

Becaufe then fayefl  lam  rich,  andincreqfidwHh 

go-jds.     Revelation  iii.  17. 

\  WfHAT  makes  miftakeo  men  afraid 
v    Of  fov'reign  grace  to  preach  I 
The  reafon  is  0'  laid) 

Becaufe  they  are  fo  rkh. 
i  Why  fo  ofFenfive  in  their  eyes 
Dotli  God's  election  feem  ? 
Becaufe  they  think  therafelves  fo,  vAi%j 
That  they  have  chpljen  him* 


UJRT's    HTMNS.  pfy 

$  Of  perfeverance  why  fo  loth 
Are  feme  to  foeak  or  hear  * 
Becaule,  as  mailers  over  floth, 
They  vow  to  perfevere* 

4  Whence  is  imputed  rightecrufQefs9 
A  point  fo  little  known  ? 
Becaufe  men  think  they  all  pc-ITefs 
Some  righteouinefs  their  own. 

j  Not  fo  the  needy  helpkfs  foal 
Prefers  his  humble  pray'r: 
He  looks  to  him  that  works  the  whole; 
And  feeks  his  tre#fuie  there. 

4  His  language  is,  *s  let  me,  my  God^ 
"On  foyereign  grace  reiy; 
"  And  own  'tis  free,  becaufe  beilow'd 
"  On  one  fo  vile  as  I. 

h  "  Ele&fori!  *T  is  a  word  divine; 
"  For,  Lord,  I  plainly  fee, 
**  Had  not  thy  choice  prevented  mine} 
"I  ne'er  had  chofen  thee* 

%  -*  For  perfeverance  foength  I've  none* 
ki  But  wouici  on  ibis  depend, 
*'  That  Jefus  having  hv'd  his  awn, 
"  Hehv'dthem  to  the  end. 

«9  "  Empty  ^id  hare  I  come  to  thee, 
kk  For  righteoaihefs  divine  : 
'*  O  may  thy  matchlefs merits  be, 
"  By  imputation  minel" 

&d  Thus  differ  thefe,  yet  hoping  eaoh 
To  make  falvation  fure : 
3^ow  mofr.  men  would  approve  the  rish$ 
got  Chriil  has  bleit  the  p^r. 


14*  HART*  HYMNS. 

CXIV. 
For  thine  is  the  kingdom^  &c.  Matth.  \\  l%+ 

%  TTE  fools  fbat  are  weak, 

•^     c  nd  heir;  ids,  and  poor, 
Who  know  net  to  fpe?.k, 

Much  iefs  to  do  more, 
Lo  !  here's  a  foundation 

For  csmfort  and  peace  \ 
In  Chrilt  is  faction, 

The  kingdom  is  />/'/. 
ft  With  paw'r  he  rules, 

And  wanders  performs  J 
Girts  c-onduct  to  fools, 

Ana  courage  to  worms; 
Eefet  by  (ore  evils 

Without  and  within, 
By  legions  of  devils, 

An  J  mountains  of  fin. 
£  Then  be  not  afraid, 

All  pow'r  isgiv'n 
To  Jtfus  our  head, 

In  eaith  and  in  heav'n. 
Thro'  him  we  (hall  cou'quet 

Themiphtieftfoes, 
Our  Captain  is  ftronger 

Than  all  that  oppoie. 
4  His  pow'r  from  above 

He'll  kindly  impart, 
So  free  is  his  love, 

So  ter.der  ftis  heart. 
Redeem 'd  with  his  m^rlt, 

We're  wafh'd  in  his  blood  ; 
Renevv'd  by  his  Spirit, 

We've  pow'r  with  God, 


HJRT's   HTMN$> 

§  Thy  grace  we  adore, 

Director  divine, 
The  kingdom,.  ;ai,d  pow*ft 

And  glory  are  thine. 
Preferve  us  from  running 

On  rocks  or  on  fBelves  ; 
From  fg  s  iirong  and  cuarringj 

And  mofi  from  ourfelves. 
0  Reign  o'er  us  as  king  ; 

Accomplish  thy  will. 
And  powerfully  bring 

Us  forth  from  all  ill  j 
Til!  failing  before  thee, 

We  hud  thy  lov'd  name* 
Aicribing  the  glory 

To  God  and  the  Lamb, 


149 


CXv 


Who  was  delivered  for  our  offences,  end  was  raifec} 
agx'uif'jr  our  justification.  Rom.  iv.  25. 

I    TESUS,  when  on  the  bloody  tree 

J    He  hung,  thro*  foul  and  body  p'rerc'd, 
(  That  ail  things  might accompiifhM  be 
Conrain'din  lcripture)  faid,/ th'trfi* 

%  Hyjfop.  the  plant  ordain'd  by  God, 
And  held  by  jews  in  high  ejteejn, 
Which  fprinkled  them  with  pifchal  blood/* 
Sharp  vinegar  cenvey'd  to/;/;//. 

3  This  done,  our  dear,  our  dying  Lordj 
F.xem  his  fhort  expiring  breath  ; 
Uters  this  rich  important  word, 
*T*s  fihijh'd;  and  iubmits  to  death, 

*  Esod.  xii  aa. 


.1  cd  11  JRl's   II T  MN  3. 

4  Henceforth  an  end  is  put  to  fin, 
(Th1  important  word  implies  ro  left) 
3SJow  for  believers  is  brought  in 

An  everlafting  righteoufnefs. 

5  The  Sen  of  God  an  '  died, 
Sinners  as  Mack  as  bell  to  ;    re  ; 
And,  that  they  might  bejuftified, 
Is  ris'n  victorious  From  I 

6  In  heav'n  lie  lives,  r*nr  fcnp ,  our  prieft, 

ads ; 

1 1< .  w  fu  re  j  s  0  u  rial  rati  o  • 
[    Died,  role,  afcended,  intercedes. 


pXTI.     • 

For lefiatt mtfpcakof kimfclf.  Joha  xvi.  13. 

t  Vy  HATHVER  prompts  the  foul  to  price, 
^       Or  gives  us  room  to- boaft, 
(Except  in  Jefus  cruciiiep!} 

1e  not  the  Holy  Gh 

2  ri  hat  blciT^c!  Spil ''»  *-.mus  to  fpeak 

Of  wh  it  -       >ne  ; 

And  ;    ■     h*  ..-. .    .:.    n  d  finnei  feek 
Salvation  in  the  Son. 

-a 

3  |$c  f<  Idom  moves  a  man  to  fay, 

"  Thank  God  I'mm; 

But  turns  his  eye  another  v.c 
To  Jeius  and  his  blood. 

4  Grear  are  the  gra  :es  I 

Bui 
He  pjadiydicT;  ■•  hea/Sj 

u  Salvation  h  the  lamb'' 


cxvn. 

Andys  are  complke  in  him*    C  cL  il. 

WHEN  is  ft  Chriftians  aril  a 
And  let  di&ifi&tons  fall  \ 
When,  nothing  in  tkemi'elves,  they  i 
That  Chii:l  is  aU  in  aU. 

-j  Bat  ftrifeand  difference  willfi 
While  men  will  fomerbing  feem. 
Let  them  bat  ilngl-:  look  to  Chri:i> 
And  all  are  one 

I  The  infant  and  the  aged  faint* 
The  worker,  arid  the  weak 
Hiey  who  are  ftrong,  and  feld 
And  they  who  fcaYee  can    >eak. 

i4  Eternal  life's  the  gift 
It  comes  .   •  • 

Tis  1  it  with  his  bl 

And 

5  We  have 

But  what  .  .-  .  .    ■ 

We  ali  defer ve  e 
And  thus  we  alj 


III. 
The  Outcas  :      >f  E  srae£i 
f  Ol-Ll),  pity  outca&s  vile 
x-i^  The  poor  dependants  do  thy  grace, 

Whom  m 
By  tinners  and  b 

Vwthefe  toobkd^foi  thofeioc   *<iod 
Cx;ndsftin;d,  or  i'hunn  d  t 
F 


jijrt's  i-itm::s. 

&  Tho'  fait}  f.-.!  Abr'hara  us  reject* 

And  tho'  m'd  race,  eleft, 

Agree  to  •  ive  us  up  , 
Thfoti  art  our  father,  and  thy  name 
From  everlafiin$  is  the  lame; 

On  that  we  build  our  hope. 


CXIX. 

TL*  Lord  thy  God  brought  it  to  me.  Gen.  xxvii. 

j         A  ND  now  the  work  is  dene, 
j.  \  Without .  ts  or  coil : 

author  s  merit's  none, 
And  therefore  none  his  boaft  : 
He  only  claims  whate'er's  amifs. 
Aias  !  how  large  a  mare  is  his '. 

a      Some  time  it  took  to  cat 
And  hunt  for  tingling  found; 

Was  very  quickly  found. 
For  ev'rv  truly  Chriftian  though*, 
Was  by  the  God  of  liaac  brought. 

3       May  he  that  fings  or  rends, 
That  precious  b'efling  know, 
That  comes  by  Jaeob's  kids, 
And  not  Iron  Efau's  boiv. 

0  bring  no  price,  God's  grace  is  fret, 
To  Paul,  to  Magdalene,  to  m:. 

4.       Glory  to  Cod  alone, 

(Let  man  forbear  to  boafl) 

To  Father,  and  to  Son, 
And  to  the  Holy  Gh  oft. 
Eternal  life  s  the  y.ift  of  God  : 

1  he  Lamb  procur'd  it  by  his  blood. 


TT 


PPLEME  N  T 


For  the  Lord's  Supper,     zo  Hymns, 


HpHB  Rim?  of  heaven  a  fenft  has  made, 

And  to  h^  mucnHov'd  rriencls, 
1  he  faint,  the  famil'h'd,  and  the  fad, 
This  invitation  fends  : 

"  Beggars?  approach  my  royal  board, 
**  Furnifti'd  with  all  that's  good  : 

"  Come  (it  at  table  with  your  Lord, 
"  And  eat  celeftial  food. 

"  My  body  and  my  blood  receive, 

"  It  comes  entirely  tree  : 
"  J  aik  no  price  for  ali  I  give  ; 

M  But  O,  rememoer  ?ne. 

Lo,  at  thy  gracious  bidding,  Lord^ 

Tho'  vile  and  bafe,  we  come  ; 
O,  fpeak  the  reconciling  word, 

And  welcome  wand'rers  home. 

Ri:h  wine,  and  milk,  and  heavenly  meat* 

We  come  t®  buy,  and  live, 
Since  nothings  the  price  that's  fet, 

And  we  have  nought  to  give. 

Impart  to  all  thy  flock  below 

The  bleifings  of  thy  death. 
On  ev  ry  begging  foul  beftow 

'i  hy  love,  thy  hope,  tfi$  taith. 


Mk 


|^  HAk7U    HTK 

7  May  each,  withftrength  from  heav'n  endu'd* 
Say,        -     •  's  mine: 

<i  J  eat  his  is  blood, 

"  Jr.:  -.-ne/> 


II. 

r  HPI3IS  k  the  day  the  ^>rd  has  n- 

*  Rejoice,  my 
His  royal 

for  fuch  viie  worms  as  v. ;- 

a  Ye  beggars,  from  your  dunghills  rife> 
Caft  off  your  rags  of  ftiame. 
Open,  ye  blind,  your  loog-clos'd  eyes  % 
And  leap  for  joy>  ye  lame. 

g  Come,  and  with  rep-al  robes  be  das', 
All  at  the  i  hrift. 

Come,  ev'ry  one  a  king  be  m 
And  ev'ry  one  a  prieft. 

3  Welcome    |  ier,wel  itto 

Leave  all  thy  care«  behind. 
Dilmifs  thy  doubt,  call 

'amgstathc  wind. 

•  •  |  |  y  c  d,  believe  his  w 

Mis  Spi  it,  and  his  Son. 

Only1  Ip.gLoid, 

And  all  the  work  is  doae. 

£  Come.eai  h,  and  drink  his 

Make  all  his  merits  thine. 
gutr  ivesonfood, 

'  ^d  feel         I  reagth  or  wi»e* 


• 


ffARTs    HYMNS.  i*J 

III. 

,0  LORY  to  God  on  high  ; 
VT   Our  peace  is  made  with  heav'n  3 
The  Son  of  God  cams  down  to  die, 
That  fin  might  be  forgiv'n. 

His  precious  blood  was  Pneds 

His  body  bruis'd,  for  fin  ; 
Remember ////in  eating  breada 

And  that  in  drinking  wine. 

Approach  his  royal  board, 

In  his  rich  garments  clad, 
join  ev'ry  tongue  to  praife  the  Lord  S 

Andev'ry  heart 

The  Father  gives,  the  Son  ; 
The  Son  h  md  blood  : 

The  Spir't  applies,  and  faith  puts  en 
The  righteouinefs  of  God. 

Sinners,  the  gift  receive, 
And  each  fay,  '*  I  am  chief: 
'*  Thou  know'ft,  O  Lord,  I  would  belisye  ? 
"Oh!  help  my  unbelief/' 

Lord,  help  us  from  above, 
The  power  is  all  thy  own. 
Faith  is  thy  gift,  and  hope,  and  love  ) 
For  of  ourielves  we've  none. 


IV. 

f  TTATHERof  heav'n,  almighty  King, 
-£     How  wondrous  is  thy  iove  ! 
That  worms  of  duft  thy  praife  fhould  ilflgj 
And  thou  their  fougs  approve  i 


i  Since  by  a  new  and  living  way 

Accefs  to  thee  is  giv'n, 
Poor  finners  may  with  bo!dneTs  pray, 

And  earth  con  rerfe  with  h  av'o. 
3  Give  each  ibme  token,  Lord,  for  good, 

knd  fend  the  Spirit  down, 

Tojeedusw^ceJettialfood, 

1  he  body  ot  thy  Sen 

Hnd  all  that  take  may  live. 
$  &*er'ty  tongue  the  Father  own  ; 

^ieekandiareusfenttheSon, 

ADd  g^es  the  Holy  Ghoft. 

fi  T    ORD,  who  can  hear  of  all  tny  w 

a.    hY  groans  and  dying  cries, 

Antrfnot  feel  tears  of  forrow  flow. 
And  fighs  of  pity  rife  ? 

£  Much  harder  than  the  hardeft  ft0n* 
Tbatmaa's  hard  heart  rnuft  be  " 

£!   °-£a/irLon7  with  fhamc  we  own, 
Thatjuftfucji  hearts  have  we. 

3  T«UY7b°l3  of  thV  ^  an^  blood 
Will  (as  thev  have  been  ofr) 

With  unrelenting  hearts  beview'd. 
un'cfs  thou  make  them  foft. 
4.  piflohre  tnefe  rocks   call  forth  the  ftream, 
Make  ev  rv  eye  a  flu  ice  : 
Let  nr-ne  be  flow  to  weep  for  him, 
Who  wept  io  much  foi  us. 


HJRT's   HTMNS.  157 

And  while  we  mourn,  snd  ling,  and  pray, 

And  feed  on  bread  and  wine, 
Lord,  let  thy  qakk'ning  Spirt  convey 

The  fubitancc  \*iih  the  figo. 


VI. 
HPHEbleft  memorials  of  thy  grief, 
Thy  fuiT'rings,  and  thy  death, 
I  We  come,  dear  Saviour,  tc  receive  ; 

But  would  receive  with  faith. 
i,  The  tokens  fent  us.  to  relieve 

Our  ipirits  when  they  droopy 
1  We  come,  dear  Saviour,  to  receive  ; 

But  would  receive  with  hope. 
I  The  pledges  thou  waft  pleas'd  to  leave, 

Our  mournful  minds  to  move,' 
I   We  come,  dear  Saviour,  to  receive  ; 

But  would  receive  with  love. 
\  Here,  in  obedience  to  thy  word, 
We  take  the  bread  and  wine  ; 
The  utraoft  we  can  do,  dear  Lord, 
For  all  beyond  is  thine. 
r  Increafe  our  faith,  and  hope,  and  leve; 
Lord,  give  us  all  that's  good. 
We  would  thy  full  falvation  prove, 
And  (hare  thy  flefh  and  blood, 


VII. 

JOIN  ev*ry  tongu*  to  fing 
The  mercies  of  the  Lord, 
The  love  of  Chrift  our  King 
Let  ev'ry  heart  record. 
He  fav'd  us  from  the  wrath  of  God, 
And  paid  our  raoiorn  with  his  blood: 


HART's    HTMN& 
grace  was  this  I 

Ke  wrought  the  i  faefs, 

■ 
We  ran  the  fcore  to  lengths  e>;tr 
/^i  ,i  on  him, 

3      J T  j: ! I  was  our  juft  defeft, 

An  :.  he  that  hell  endur'd. 

Guilt  broke  his  guilt tefs heart, 

With  wrath  that  we  incr 
We  bruis'd  his  be.  is  hlocd  ; 

And  beih  became  our  heav'nly  food. 


II. 

I  TT  oom  brais'd  to  death  5 

1  i.  Who  haft  the  wine-prefs  trod 
Of  th'  A!  ng  wrath, 

il,  flaughter'd  Lamb  oTOo 

Melt  oui  ve  like  thine? 

While  we  behold  thee  on  the  tree* 
Sweetly  mourning  o'er  each  fign, 
In  memory  of  thee. 
•  Hail,  thou  mighty  Saviour !  bleft 
\t  world  began 

:atc. 
■  lanf 
The*  le  ftrainSf 

And  tor.  -e 

. 
In  m 
I  Break,  0  tearts  of  ftone* 

Lord, 


HART'S   BTMN& 

TtV  Holy  Ghoft  into  us  breathe, 
H^lp  us  to  take,  fi  ora  douotings  free, 
Thefe  dear  tokens  of  thy  death, 
In  memory  of  thee. 

4  Thou,  onr  great  Meicbifedec, 

Bring'ft  forth  thy  bread  and  winei 
Thou  halt  wrong  it  out  for  our  iak^ 

A  righteoufnefs  divine. 
Send  thy  bleffiag  from  above, 

-  .1  worms  partake,  ftfch  worms  as  wea 
Thefe  rich  pledges  of  thy  love 

la  memory  of  thee. 


*$9 


IX, 

%  f^H!  that  our  flinty  hearts  wouIrJ  melt, 
KJ>   While  to  remembrance,  Lord,  we  call 
Part  of  that  weight  which  thou  haft  felt  £ 
For  who  can  comprehend  it  all  \ 

%  Ye  miners,  while  thefe  fymbote  dear 
Prcfent  your  fufPring  Lord  to  view, 
Drop  the  foft  tribute  of  a  tear  ; 
For  he  fried  many  a  tear  for  you, 

3  In  the  fad  garden,  on  the  wood, 
Liis  body  bruis'd,  from  ev'ry  part, 
Pour'd  en  the  ground  a  purple  flood, 
'Till  forrow  broke  his  tender  heart. 

4  Lord,  while  we  thus  (hew  forth  thy  deatk; 
O  fend  thy  vSpirit  from  above  : 

Kelp  us  to  feed  on  thee  by  faith  ; 

Aii£  ugh,  and  fing,  and  mourpj  ged  m^ 

F2 


i6o  HJRTs    HYMNS. 

X. 
i  WHEN  thro  the  defart  vaft, 

i  he  chofen  tribes  were  led, 
Thev  could  not  plow,  nor  till,  nor  fow, 
Yet  never  wanted  bread' 

*  Around  their  wand'ring  camp 

The  copious  manna  fell  : 
Strew  d  on  the  ground,  a  food  they  found; 

But  <wkat,  they  could  not  teii. 

3  But  better  bread  by  far, 

Is  now  to  Cbriftianr-  given  ; 
Poor  tinners  cat  irnmorrai  meat, 
i  he  living  bieaa  from  heaven; 

4  We  eat  the  rleili  of  Chnft  ; 
Who  is  the  bread  of  God. 

Their  food  was  coarfe,  comparM  with  otirs 
Tho'  iheirs  was  ;«agels'  food. 


XL 

l  T  OT?D,  fm6  thy  Spirit  down 
*-*   On  babes  that  long  to  learn. 

Open  r.«.ir  eyes  ;  and  make  us  wife* 
Thy  body  to  dtfeern. 

,a  'Ti*  by  thy  word  we  live, 

And  not  by  bread  alone  ; 
The  woui  ot  truth  from  thy  blcfl  mouth 

O,  make  it  clearly  known. 

3  With  what  we  have  receiv'd 
Tmpart  thy  qnick'ning  powir. 

We  would  he  fed  with  living  bread* 
And  live  for  evermore. 


HJRT's    HTMNS.  16s 

XII. 
t  13ITY  a  helplefs  (inner,  Lord, 

A    Who  wouid  believe  thy  graci  >us  word  ; 
But  own  my  heart,  with  fhame  and  grief, 
A  fink  of  (in  and  unbelief. 

1  Lord,  in  thy  houfe  f  read  there's  room  : 
And  vent'ring  hard  behold  I  come. 
But  can  there,  teii  me,  can  there  be* 
Among  thy  children  room  for  me. 

j  T  eat  the  bread,  and  drink  the  wine  : 
But  oh  !  my  foul  wants  more  than  fign. 
1  faint,  unlets  I  feed  on  Thee, 
And  drink  thy  blood  as  fhed  for  me. 

4  For  (inners,  Lord?  thou  carn'ft  to  bleed : 
And  Vm  ?.  (inner,  vile  indeed  ! 
Lord,  I  believe  thy  grace  is  free  ; 
O,  magnify  thy  grace  in  me. 


XIII. 


3  How  good  our  r£r?.cion3  God  is  ? 
What  rich  feafl  provide  I 

Bread  and  wmt  to  feed  our  bodies  \ 
But  much  more  is  figni  lied. 
<^il  his  {lieep  (  pOBder!) 

Fee  J3  he  with  his  fle(h  and  blood. 
Where's  the  power  can  ever  fuader 
Souls  united  thus  to  G:d  ? 

When  we  take  the  facred  fymbols 
Of  his  body,  bread  and  wine  , 
While  the  h-art  relents  and  tremble*, 
We  rejoice  with  joy  iivine. 


F    '  Is  US  \  it]  /  _.jj. 

rod. 

Jeius  C 

- 

r  in  him  :  ;nefs 

hou  thali  prove  that  Chrift  is  ftrong; 

[V. 

iG  Saviour,  Larab  of  God* 

tou  been  .  . 

kthful  rod 
bruiied  ! 
n  thou  once  wafl  flam, 
•  ,.v .  ce  thee, 
•  pain, 
And  . .;  cy. 

5  We  .iipathlze 

With  'ping  eyet 

ition. 
4  Ling  love  : 

learl       .a  thee. 
^>  mi  have  we  in  heaven  above? 
I  bee  ? 

itions  teize  as  ? 
•.  unto* 
Bat  the  blood  of  Jeftfs. 


$  Pardon  all  our  bafenefs,  Lord  j 
All  our  weaknefs  pity. 
Guide  us  fafely  by  thy  word 
To  the  beav'nly  city. 
7  Oh*!  fuftain  us  on  the  road 
Thro*  this  defart  dreary. 
Feed  us  with  thy  flefti  an       ' .  ~  ~: , 
When  we're  faint  ana  yrc 
S  Bid  us  call  to  mind  thy  crofs  , 

Our  hard  hearts'to  foften. 
Often,  Saviour,  feaft  U3  thus  \ 
For  we  need  it  often. 


XV. 

I  HPHE  tender  mercies  of  the  Lord 
-I-    On  thofe  that  fear  his  name, 
For  ev7ry  thankful  tongue  atroid 
An  everlafting  thei 
%  Ke  pities  all  that  feel  his  fear, 

When  wounded,  pain'd,  or  weak  2 
As  tender  mothers  grieve  to  hear 
Their  infants  moan,  when  uck. 

3  He  to  the  needy  and  the     ;  . . 

His  v  jwn  ; 

And  whe  ft        languid  Jife  is  fpent,, 
Supplies  i    is  own.  j 

4  The  body  in  his  bounty  fharesf 

Suftain'd  with  corn  end  wine  i 
But  for  the  foul  himfelf  prepares 
A  banquet  more  divine. 

5  By  faith  received  his  ?ie<\^  and  blood 

Shall  life  eternal  give  : 
For  he  that  eats  immortal  food 
mortally  mud  aye. 


164  JUR2'>i    Hl'MNS, 

XVI. 
r  tlTHEN Jefus  undertook 
vv    To  refcueruio'd  man, 

The  realms  of  blifs  forfook, 

And  to  relieve  us  ran  ; 
He  fpar  'd  n<-  pains,  deciiR'd  no  load, 
Kefolv  d  to  buy  us  with  his  blood. 
a   No  harih  commands  he  pave, 
hard  conditions  brought. 

He  came  to  ieek  and  iave, 

And  pardon  ev'ry  fault. 
Poor  trembling  finners,  hear  his  call : 
They  come,  and  he  forgives  them  ali. 
5  When  thus  we're  reconcile, 

He  fers  no  rig'rous  taffcs. 

His  yoke  is  foft  and  miid  ; 

For  love  is  all  heafks  : 
Ev'n  that  from  him  we  firft  receive, 
For  wel!  he  knows  we've  none  to  givet 
4  This  pure  and  b< -av'nly  gift 

Within  our  hearts  to  move, 
"  dy*ng  Saviour  1  ft 

Thefe  tokens  of  his  love  : 
i  h  fcem  to  fay>    "  While  this  ye  do» 
"Remember  him  that  died  for  vou/' 


XVII. 

TIT  AT  doleful  night  be  for?  his  death, 
The  Iamb  of  tinners,  (lain, 
nrioft  with  his  h\"\\  breath 
i  his  foJeron  feaft  ordain. 

are  we  met; 
And  to  remember  Thee. 
Help  each  poor  trembler  to  repeat, 
For  me,  he  divci  far  me.  Hal, 


HJR7'%    STMK9\  16; 

Thy  fuff  rings,  Lord,  each  faered  fign 

To  our  remembrance  brings  : 
We  eat  the  bread,  and  drink  the  wine  j 

But  think  on  nobler  things. 
O,  tune  uur  tongues,  and  let  in  frame 

Each  heart  that  panis  to  Thee, 
To  fing  "  Hofannato  the  Lamb, 

"  i'he  Lamb  that  died  for  me."         Ha7,, 


XVIil. 

JESUS,  once  for  finners  flain,    ^         Hal. 
J  From  the  dead  was  rais'd  again  ; 
And  in  heaven  is  now  let  do  wa" 
i  his  Father  in  his  throne, 

e  be  reigns  a  King  fnpreme; 
We  (hall  alfo  rgfgn  with  Hioi. 
fouls,  be  not  difmay'd  ; 
Iruit  in  his  airpighty  aid. 

Tiade  an  end  of  fin, 

hath  wafh'd  us  dean. 
gvei  near ; 
.  he's  with  us  here. 

aiTembling  we,  b  \  Faith, 
Till  he  ^  -  his  death. 

.  body  bread's  the  fign,: 
ftnd  ^edn:,:-  his  bloc      ifi  WM 

I  thus  broken  aptl1   (frews 
How  his  body  God  di  1  braife  ; 
When  the  grape's  rich  blood  we  fee* 
Lcid5  we  then  remember  Thee. 

i  Saints  on  earth,  with  faints  above, 
Celebrate  his  dying  love; 


2  66 

And  let  ev'ry  ranfom'd  foul 
Sound  his  praife  from  pole  to  pole. 

XIX. 
1      nPHE  God,  that  firft  us  chofe, 
X  Th*  eternal  Father  praife. 
What  wondrous  bounties  he  beftows  S 
And  by  what  wondrous  ways ! 
%      His  creatures  all  are  fill'd, 
By  him  with  proper  food: 
But  O  I  he  gives  to  ev'ry  child 
His  Son's  own  flefh  and  blood. 
,3      Here  hungry  fouls  appear* 
And  eat  celeftial  bread. 
Th?  needy  beggar  banquets  here> 
With  roy&I  dainties  fed. 
4      Here  thirfty  fouls  approach* 
And  drink  immortal  wine. 
The  entertainment  is  for  fuch, 
Frepard  by  grace  divine. 
£       God  bids  us  bring  no  price> 
The  feafl  is  furniuYd  free  : 
His  bounteous  hand  the  poor  fuppiieS; 
And  who  more  poor  than  we  I 
6      His  Spirit  from  above 

Onr  Father  fends  us  down  ; 
And  looks  with  everlafting  love 
On  all  that  love  the  Son. 


n 


XX. 

vy  MAT  creatures  befide 
*^    Are  favor'd  like  us  I 
Forgiven,  fupply'd, 
And  banquetted  thus. 


HARTys    HTMNS.  iCj 


By  God  our  good  Father, 
Who  gave  us  his  Son  ; 
And  Tent  him  to  gather 
His  children  in  cne  ? 

atior/s  of  God, 
TV  effect  of  free  graca 
Hpon  usbeftow'd 
Before  the  world  was,] 
Cod  from  everlaftiag 
Be  blelt :  and  again 
Blell  to  eyerlafting, 
Amen,  and  amen. 


XXI. 

Before  Preaching.     2  Hnsn?» 

I  |~\NCE  more  we  come  before  our  God, 
\J  Once  more  his  blefiing  afk. 
O  may  not  duty  feem  a  load! 
Nor  wodhip  prove  a  tafk. 

s  Father,  thy  quick'ning  Spirit  fend 
From  heaven  in  Jefu's  name, 
To  make  our  waiting  minds  attend3 
And  put  Gur  fouls  in  frame. 

3  May  we  receive  the  word  we  hear, 

Each  in  an  honeft  heart ; 
Hoard  up  the  precious  treafure  thers, 
And  never  with  it  part. 

4  To  feek  thee  all  our  hearts  difpofe, 

To  each  thy  bleffings  fuit. 
And  let  the  feed  thy  fervantfows 
Produce  a  copious  iVuiu 


,68  HJRT's    HTMNS. 

5  Sid  the  refrefning  north  wind  wake, 

Say  to  the  fouth  wind  blow  ; 
Let  ev'ry  piant  the  power  partake, 
And  all  liv  grow. 

6  Revive  the  ^v:\\'d  with  heav'nly  Juiow'i 

Thecoid  with  warmth  divine. 
And  as  the  benefit  is  ours, 
Be  all  the  glory  thine. 


i  'yHE  good  hand  of  God 
■*■    Has  brought  us  again 
(A  favour beftow'd, 
We  hope  not  in  vain) 
To  hear  from  our  Saviour 
The  word  of  his  grace, 
Then  be  our  behavior 
Becoming  the  place. 
S  Remember  the  ends 
For  which  we  are  met. 
Alas  !  my  dear  friends, 
We're  apt  to  forget. 
The  motives  that  brought  us 
The  Lord  only  fees  ; 
Bnt  if  he  has  taught  us, 
Our  ends  mould  he  thefe  : 
3  To  worfhip  the  Lord 

With  praife  and  with  prayV. 
To  praclife  his  word, 
As  well  as  to  hear. 
To  own  with  contrition 
The  deeds  we  have  dune  ; 
And  take  the  rcmiflion, 
God  gives  in  his  Son. 


HART*    HTMNS.  l6$ 

BleS  Spirit  of  Chrift, 

Defcend  on  us  thus. 
Thy  fervant  aifift  ; 
TeachJiim  to  teach  us. 
enjf  us  thy  nndiuo, 
ic.h  u?  ail  good  : 
Ijiliuf  touch  with  compunclion  j 
:  Aid  fpriokie  with  biood. 

XXIII. 
The  Fear  of  the  Lord.      ?  Hrmm 
^Tfl£  fear  of  the  Lord  J    ^         ' 

X    Our  days  will  prolong  ; 
In  trouble  afford 
:  A  confidence  ftrong  ; 
iWill  keep  us  from  (inning  ; 
Will  prolper  our  ways  ; 
[And  is  the  beginning 
Or  wifclom  and  grace. 
The  fear  of  the  Lord 
Preserves  us  from  death; 
Enforces  his  word  ; 

=ns  our  faith. 
h  regulates  paflioo  j 
^na  helps  us  to  quell 
The  dread  of  damnation 
i  And  terrors  of  hell. 
(The  fear  of  the  Lord 
Is  foundnefs  and  health  j 
f\  treafure  well  fiord 
With  heavenly  wealths 
r\  fence  againft  evil, 

-  hich  we  refiR 
WTorld,  flefh,  and  the  devil; 
[&ad  imitate  Chrift. 


HART'*   HTMN% 

4  The  fea  ord 

Is  clean  and  approv'd  ; 
abhorr'd, 

An  -: 

It  con-iju'^rs  !>v  i 

Is  proof 

A  cordial  in  ficknefs  ; 

A  fountain  of 

5  The  fear  of  the  Lord 

>wly  and  meek  ; 
ri  he  happy  1C  '■' 
Of  all  that  him  feelf  : 
They  oni  .  ;JrQ 

The  tru::.  urn  % 

For  living  fo  near  mm 
His  fecrets  they  learn. 

6  The  fear  of  the  Lord 
His  mercy  makes  dear, 
His  judgments  ador'd, 
His  righteoufnefs  clear. 
Without  its  frefe  flavor 

In  knowledge  there's  fault.' 
In  doctrines  no  favor, 
In  duties  no  fait. 

j  The  fear  of  the  Lord 
Confirms  a  good  hope. 
By  this  are  reftorM 
The  fenfes  that  droop. 
The  deeper  it  reaches, 
The  more  the  foul  thrives. 
It  gives  what  it  teaches, 
Aid  guards  what  it  £irc3* 


r.  i  -  •  r  v  e 


The  ft  at*  of  the  Lord 
is  us  to  yield. 
It  iharpens  our  fword,  ^ 
And  ftrengthens  our  (hielch 
Then  cry  we  to  heaven. 
With  one  loud  accord, 
1'ha  to  us  be  given 
The  fear  of  the  Lord. 


•  TjAPPYthetoent 
J"71  They  fsofti  t 

sat  fear  the  Lord*' 

athsx>ffiD  depart^ 

Rejoice  ai 

at  nis  wot    i 

And 

4  '1  hey  in  ) 

- 

Revere  his  judgment 

'  contemn  • 

«         i-           9           5  ,-'  !    o 

!    In  pieafing  him 

pieaiure's  i 

it  ts  pi 

ac'd  in  tnern. 

Ik  This  fear,  an-: 
Preierves  the  : 

■W  pride 

|    The  heart  that  \ 

s  fear  is  pjo?> 

laiever  it 

■  XI  •     - " 

id   -    -     - 

iiks  free  r<  ue*  1 

THE  mew  that 
Inei 

TheLovci  \i 
Their  fouls  ibai 


i72  HART>s   HTMNS. 

a      Mis  f-.crets  they  fhail  (hare  ; 
His  cov  :»ant  thai!  lea.n  : 
Guided  by  grace,  (hall  walk  his  ways, 
And  heavenly  truth  difcern. 

3  He  pines  all  their  griefs ; 
When  (inking,  mak  c  them  fwim. 

He  dries  their  tears,  relieves  their  fears  5 
And  bids  them  truft  in  him. 

4  In  his  remembrance- book, 
The  Saviour  fets  thelm  down, 

Accounting  each  a  jewel  rl^h  ; 
And  palls  them  ail  his  own. 

5  This  fear's  the  SoiVt  of  faith  ; 
A  confidence  that's  ftrong  ; 

An  unctuous  light  toaii  that's  tight, 
A  bar  to  all  that's  wrong. 

»       It  gives  religion  life 

To  warm  as  Well  as  light : 
Makes  mercy  Tweet,  fslvarion  great, 
And  all  God's  judgments  right. 


XXVI. 

InuUlJing  of  Mercy  and  of  Judgment,  Pfalm  ci. 

I       r"g"",IIY  mercy,  Lord,  we  praife  ; 
-^     Of  judgment  too  we  ling: 
For  all  the  riches  of  thy  pace, 
Our  grateful  tribute  brin^. 

2.      Mercy  :r:ay  juilly  claim 
A  finner's  thankful  voice  : 
And  j»H^menf  joining  in  the  theme, 
We  tremble  and  rejoice. 


R JRT's    HYMNS.  i|3 

'3       Thy  mercies  'old  us  truft  ; 

Thy  judgments  ftiike  with  awe  i 
We  fear  the  lail,  we  biefs  the  nrft  5 
Ana  love  thy  righteous  law. 

4      Who  can  thy  acts  exprefs  ? 
Or  trace  thy  v. 
Iiow  glorious  is  thy  holinefs  i 
How  terrible  thy  praiivj  i 

;      Thy  goodnefs  how  immenfe 
To  thofe  that  fear  thy  narr  e  ! 
Thy  !ove  furpafles  thought  or  fenfe ; 


Afid  always  is 

the 

fame. 

'■> 

Thy  judgment 

s  ar 

etoodo 

-P 

t 

For  reail\ 

Thy  tcn.:r.    m 

to  thy  ih 

ceo 

\ 

No  bottom  kn 

3  W  > 

2S*~ 

nd. 

XX  VII. 

HARACTERS  AND  OFFICES  OF  CHRIST, 

CHRIST  is  th*  eternal  Rocky 
,On  which  his  church  is  built; 
fjPn&Sbepberd  of  hh  little  flock  ; 
The  Lamb  tb*t  took  our  guilt  ; 

Our  GounfeUor  ;  our  Guide  ; 
Our  Brother,  and  our  Friend  ; 
The  Bridegroom  or  his  choien  brids? 
Who  loves  her  to  the  end. 

He  is  the  Son  to  free  ; 
The  5//^>  he  to  blefs  ; 
Thefuil  Pre  lie  ; 

The  Lord  our  RjgbtfQufnefs. 


i74  II ARTU   Iiri,2N$. 

Ris  body's  glorious  II. 

• .    t  pleads  $ 
Our  v'd,  aton'd»and  blerJ, 

And  ever  intercedes. 

%      Let  all  obedient  fouls 

.ribute  bring; 
Submit  to  Jefu's  righteous  tules, 
And  I 

expounds 
H  s  a»d  our  Father's  will. 
Thii         '  '  res  ourwcunuss 

Wiiii  ten::-  .  (kill. 

4      When  (In  had  fadly  made 

'Twixt  ;  ftrife  j 

Our  dear 

Our  ranic  s  life* 

Faith  giv<  ie  ; 

( )ur  Surety  for  us  !• 
The  icef 

And  ii&n'u  it  v. 

iers*  your  Captain  own, 
vc your  / 

ymo  tli'  in* 

fare  and  true 
d's  goo  I  will  to  men, 
eg*  too, 

»      |  1ms  (hall  not  ftray. 

Wh>-;  ted  flee  fn  m  wrath  ? 

.  patfc* 


IIJRT's   HTMNS.  tfl 

Chriftians  In  Chriil  obtain 

The  \  hat  can't  d  :celvQ, 

indnevec  I  aid, 

Who  in  the  Z:;"}  befie?ei 


XXVIII, 

Praise  for  Creation  and  Re^empt 

2  -VST^^E  heav'nly  hoils  their  anthems  fifiga 
In  realms  above  the  fky» 
Let  worms  of  earth  their  tribute  bring, 

And  laud  the  Lord  moft  I  iigh. 
I13  thankful  notes  your  voices  raife, 

Yrranforn'd  of  the  Lord  ; 
And  fing  the  eternal  Father's  praife^ 

The  God  by  all  ador'd. 

B  All  creatures  to  h:b  bounty  c^e 
Theirbeingand  their  breat  ■  ; 
Butgn  de  mould  flotf 

In  me     redeem'd  from  death. 
II  .  -  he  deign'd  to  give; 

'e  this  gift  declares  I  j 
aJJ  that  in  the  Son  believe, 
,.    ai  life  is  theirs. 


XXIX; 
/.   '  ..  txourofGek    Eph.v:. 

i  /"n  IRD  thy  loins  up,  Chriftian  foldier,    » 

^Jr  Lo  !  r  tain  calls  thee  out : 

Let  the  danger  make  they  bo;:.  -  - 
War  Id  wteakaefe  ;  dare  in  doubt. 
F  * 


8t6         ftAnT&  nr:.ix:. 

Buckle  on  thy  neavenly  armor  ; 

Pitch  up  no  inglorious  peace: 
Let  thy  courage  wax  trie  wa.  I 

As  thy  foes  and  teass  mcreaie. 

a  Bind  thy  golden  girdle  round  thee, 

Truth  to  keek>  thee  firm  a  ght  j 

Never  fhall  thy  foe  confound  • 

While  th?  truth  maintains  thy  tight. 
Righteoui 

May  aopear  to  take  thy  part ; 
But  let  righteoufnefs  imputed 

Be  the  breafl-plate  of  thy  heart. 

3  Shod  with  tfofpel-preparation, 

In  the  paths  ofproroile  Head. 
Let  the  hone  of  free  falvation, 

As  a  helmet,  guard  thy  head. 
V.  v  a  befet  >.vhb  various  evils, 

v:\z\d  the  Spirit's  two-edg'd  fword  ; 
Cut  thy  way  tl  <>f  devils ; 

While  they  fail  before  the  word. 

4  But  when  dangers  clofer  threaten  ; 

And  thy  foul  draws  near  to  death  ; 
When  i  lore  by  Sat?n, 

Then  object  the  Ihield  of  faith: 
Fiery  darts  of  fierce  temptations, 

Intercepted  by  thy  God, 
'There  (hall  lofe  their  force  in  patience, 

Sheath  d  in  love,  and  quench'd  in  blood. 

5  jTho'  to  foeak  thou  be  not  able, 

Aiwavs  pray,  and  never  red. 
PravVs  a  weapon  tor  the  feeble  : 
Wc'*kift  iuuii  kau  \;iwld  it  belt. 


IIJRT's    HTMKS, 

Ever  on  thy  Captain  calling, 
Make  thy  woift  condition  known, 

He  (hall  hold  thee  up  when  fail  og  ; 
Or  fhaii  lift  dice  up  «  hen  down. 


XXX. 
Desertion. 

DEEP  in  a  cold  a  joylefs  cell, 
•    doleful  guiph  of  gloomy  care! 
IVhete  ^Pmai  doubrs  and  darknejs  dwell, 
j  dang'veus  i  rink  of  black  defpaif  ; 
Chili'd  by  the  Icy  dantps  of  death, 
I  fee!  no  firm  fupport  of  faith. 

How  can  a  burden's!  cripple  rife  ? 

ticvj  can  a  tetter'ci  captive  flee  ? 
Ah  !  Lord,  direcl  my  wifhful  eyes  ; 

And  let  me  look,  at  ieaii,  te  thee. 
Alas !  my  finking  fpirits  droop. 
I  fcarce  peiceive  a  glimpfe  of  hope, 


»/-; 


3  Extend  thy  mevcy,  gracious  Cod, 

Thy  quick'nin^  Spir't  vouchfefe  to  fend  $ 
Apply  thy  recencil  ;.;:  oioed, 

And  kindly  call  thy  foe  thy  friend. 
Or  if  rich  cordis'?  thou  deny, 
Let  .patience  comfort  ;s  place  fupply. 

4  Let  hope  furvive.  tho*  darnnt  by  doubt. 

Do  thou  defend  my  (hatter' d  (hield. 

(Oh  S  let  me  never  quite  give  cur, 
Help  me  to  keep  the  bloody  field. 
Lord,  look  upon  th'  unequal  ft  rife, 
Delay  not,  left  1  bfe  m>  life.  % 


i;«  ilJRT's    IirMNS, 


Christ's  Resurrection.     4  II 

1  CEE  from  the  dungeon  of  the  dead 

Our  great  1 
V  hile  con que  heavenly  }  : 

And  glory  glads  hisey    . 

2  The  ftruggling  Hero,  ftrong  to  fave, 

our  1 
Do  .  dead, 

And  left  the  burden  there. 
\ 

;'n. 
Lift  up  yo  u  r  in  -fie  k  lo  u  I  s , 

•  Lord  is  rif'n. 
4  Nc  v.  tike  draws, 

ts  the  foul  at  larj 
Our  fure  1  the  c?a:fe  ; 

Ana  faith's  a  full  difcharge. 

g  To  fave  us,  our  Redeemer  died  ; 
. 
Wh'-  1  ing  power  befide 

\ 

i  The  Lord  Is  ris'n,thou  trembling  foul  s 
Let  fears  no  more  confound. 

.e  to  pole 
The  Lord  ifris'n  1 


XX 

BELIEVER,  lift  thy  droo 
Thy  Saviour  has  th  gaiflw 

See  all  thy  foes  :n  triumph  led, 
And  1.  srlafting  life  1  bi  lin'cj. 


BJRT's   HTMNS. 

%  God  from  the  grave  has  rais'd  his  Son. 
The  powers  of  darknefs  are  defpoii'd. 
Juftice  declares  the  work  is  done, 
And  God  and  man  are  reconcii'd, 

$  Lo  1  the  Redeemer  leaves  the  tomb ; " 
See  the  Triumphant  hero  rife  ; 
His  mighty  arms  their  flrength  refume  ; 
And  conquett  fparkies  in  his  eyes. 

4  Death  his  death's  wound  has  now  receivfdj 
An  end  or  fin '3  entirely  made  ; 
Prisoners  of  hope  are  quite  repriev'd, 
And  all  the  dreadful  debt  is  paid. 

5  Chriftians,  for  whom  the  Lord  was  flain> 
Give  him  the  purchafe  of  his  blood. 
Let  fin  no  longer  in  you  reign, 

But  dedicate  your  fouls  to  God. 

5  Earth's  empty  toys  no  more  efteern  : 
Your  minds  from  wordly  things  remove; 
Let  your  affections  rife  with  him, 
And  fet  your  hearts  on  things  above. 


XXXIII. 

(CHRISTIANS,  difmifs  your  fear* 
J  Let  hope  and  joy  fucceed. 
The  ^reat  good  news  with  gladnefs  head 

The  Lord  is  ris'n  indeed. 
The  fhad^s  of  death  withdrawn, 
His  eyes  their  beams  difplay  % 
$0  wakes  the  fun  when  rofy  daw$ 
vlribars  the  gates  of  day. 

*4 


*79 


tSo  II ARTs  ffTMNA 

%      The  piomife  is  fulfsH'd, 

Salvation  s  work  is  done, 
jr  ice  with  mercv's  reeoncH'd  : 

And  G.  d  has  r  lis'd  his-Son. 

He  quits  the  dark  abode, 

From  all  corruntion  free. 
The  holy,  harmlefs  child  of  God 

Could  no  corruption  fee. 

3  Angels  with  faints  above 
The  riling  Viclor  fing  : 

And  ail  the  blifsful  feats  of  love 

With  loud  hofanoas  ring. 

Ye  piigrims  too  below. 

Your  hearts  and  voices  raife. 
Let  every  breaft  with  gladnefs  glow  ; 

And  ev*ry  mGuth  fing  praife. 

4  My  foul,  thy  Saviour  laud  ; 
Who  all  thy  farrows  bore. 

Who  died  for  fin  ;  but  live:,  to  God  J 

And  lives  to  die  no  more. 

His  death  procur  d  thy  peace. 

His  refurrection's  thine. 
Believe  ;  receive  the  full  releafe  : 

'Tis  (i&n'd  with  blood  divine. 


XXXIV. 

S  TT PAUSING  from  the  daikfome  tomb, 
U  See  the  viaorious  JefuS  come  ! 
Th*  Almighty  Prisoner  quits  the  pris'n  : 
And  anfteis  teilthe  Lord  is  ris'n. 

is,  angels',  angels,  angels,  angels  tell  th 
Lord  is  ris'n. 
».  Ye  Bpilty  fouls  that  groao  and  grieve, 
Hear  the  glad  ridin&s »  bear,  and  live. 


EJRT's    Hl'MNS,  igi 

\   Cncfs  righteous  law  is  fatisned, . 

And  juftice  now  is  on  youi  fide- 
•  uftice,  juftice,  Sec. 

Your  forety,  thus  released  by  God, 

Pleads  die  rich  raofom  of  his  blood; 

No  new  demand,  no  bar  remains* 

But  mercy  now  triumphant  reigns. 
Mercy,  mercy,  &c. 

Believer*,  hail  your  rifing  heari ; 

The  firft  begotten  from  the  dead : 

Y-ur  reiur region's  fure  thro'  his, 

To  endlef?  life  and  boundiefs  bliis. 
indiefs,  endlefs,  &c. 


XXXV. 

Christ's  Ascension.  2  Hymns* 

1  XTOvV  for  a  theme  of  thankful  praife, 

1^    To  tune  the  iiamm'rers  tongue  : 

Chriftians,  your  hearts  and  voices  laiie. 

And  join  the  joyful  fong. 
The  Lord's  afcended  up  on  high, 

Deck'd  with  refpleodent  wound?, 
While  flioqts  of  vicVry  rend  the  fky, 
And  heav'n  with  joy  refounds. 
}  See,  from  the  regions  of  the  dead, 
i'hro7  ail  the  etherial  plains, 
The  pow'rs  of  darknefs  captive  led, 
The  Dragon  diagg'd  in  chains. 
a  Ye  eternal  jgates  your  leaves  unfold, 
Receive  the  conqu'ring  King  : 

?els,  itrike  your  harps  of  gold, 
&nd  faints  triumphant  fing. 


\t2  HJRT>s  IITMNS. 

5  Sinners,  rejoice,  he  died  for  you  ; 

Far  you  prepares  a  place  ; 
Sends  down  his  Spir't  to  guide  you  thro?* 
With  ev'ry  gift  and  grac?. 

6  His  blood,  which  did  your  fins  atone. 

For  your  falvation  pleads  ; 
And  ieated  on  his  Father's  throne, 
He  reigns,  and  intercedes. 


XXXVI. 

J   TKSUS,  our  triumphant  head, 
J  ILL 

Kis'n  victorious  from  the  dead. 
To  the  realms  of  glory's  gone, 
To  afcend  his  rightful  throne. 

a  Cherubs  on  the  conqu'ror  gaze. 
Seraphs  glow  with  brighter  blaze. 
Each  bright  order  of  the  Iky, 
Hail  him,  as  he  paiTes  by. 

its  the  glorious  triumph  meet  J 
See  their  en'mies  at  his  feet. 
By  his  fears  his  toils  are  view'd, 
And  his  garments  roll'd  in  blood. 

4  Heav'n  its  King  congratulates; 
Opens  wide  her  golden  gates. 
Angels  fongs  of  vicVryfing  ; 

All  thebiilsful  regions  ring. 

5  Sinners,  join  the  heav'nly  pow'rs  Z 
For  redemption  all  is  ours. 
None  but  burden'd  iinners  prove 
Wood- bought  pardon,  dying  love. 


H  J  JIT*  3    HTMNS; 

\  Hail,  thou  deir,  thou  worthy  Lord  ; 
|  Holy  Lamb,  incarnate  Word  ! 
j  Hail,  thou  fuff'ring  Son  of  God  ! 
i  Take  die  trophies  ci  thy  blood. 


XXXVII. 

The  Gospel. 

REPENT,  ye  ions  of  men,  repent, 
.  Hear  the  good  tidings  God  has  Tent* 
Of  finneis  fav'd  and  fins  forgnr'n, 
And  beggars  rais'd  to  reign  in  heav'n.  ; 

feggars,  beggars,  beggars,  beggars,beggars  rais  3 
to  reign  in  heay'n. 
God  Tent  his  Son  to  die  for  us, 
Die  to  redeem  us  from  the  curie. 
He  took  our  weakoeis,  bore  our  load* 
And  dearly  bought  us  with  his  blood. 1 
Dearly,  dearly,  &c* 
In  guilt's  dark  dungeon  when  we  lay, 
Mercy  cried,  ufpare  ;"'  and  Jullice,  "Jlajfmt 
But  jeius  arifwer'd,  "fetthera  free  : 
**  And  pardon  them;  and  punifh  ?//?." 
pardon.  - 

\  Salvation  is  of  God  alone  ;  »        i 

Life  everia^iinci  in  his  Son  : 

And    e  that  >j?e  his  Son  to  bleed, 

Will  freely  give  us  ail  we  need.j 
Freely,  freely,  &c.  •■ 

5  Believe  tr^  gofpel,  and  rejoice. 
Sins  to  the  Lord  with  cheerful  voice. 
Hisgoodnefs  praife,his  wonders  tell9 
Who  ran&ra  d  all  our  fouls  from  bell 

i&aaforn'd,  raniom'd9  <S:e, 


184  HART's   HYMNS. 

XXXVIII. 

True  and  False  Faith. 

■      "pAJTO's  a  convincing  proof, 
J-     A  fubttance  found  and  fure, 
7  hat  keeps  the  foul  fecur'd  enough, 
Bt;t  makes  it  not  iecure. 

•       Notion's  the  harlot's  tcft, 
By  which  the  truth's  revd'd  ; 
The  child  of  fancy  finely  dteft, 
JBut  not  the  living  child. 
g      Faith  is  by  knowledge  fed, 
And  with  obedience  miit: 
Motion  is  empty,  cold,  and  dead, 
And  fancy's  never  fixt. 

4  True  faith's  the  life  of  God, 
Deep  in  the  heart  it  lies  : 

It  lives,  and  labors  Under  load, 
Tho*  dampt,  it  never  dies. 

5  A  weakening,  empty  grace, 
That  makes  us  ftron'g  and  full; 

Falfe  faith,  tho*  ftout  and  full  in  face, 
Weakens  and  ftarves  the  foul. 

4       Opinions  in  the  head 
True  faith  as  far  excels, 
As  body  differs  from  a  fhade, 
Or  kernels  from  the  fhehs. 

y       To  fee  good  brrad  cr  wine 
Is  not  to  eat  or  drink  : 
Soforae,  who  hear  the  word  divine, 
Do  not  believe,  but  think'. 


True  faith  refines  the  heart, 
And  purifies  with  blood  ; 
Takes  the  whole  gofpei,  not  a  part, 
And  holds  the  fear  of  God. 

V'ViVTV 

.     AAAJA. 

Sickness.     2  Hymns. 

LORD,  hear  areftlefs  wretch's  groans, 
A  o  thee  my  ioui  in  iecret  moans  ; 
My  body's  weak,  m\  heart's  unclean, 
1  puie  with  ficknefs,  and  with  fin. 
My  ftrength  decays,  my  fpirits  droops, 
Bow'd  down  with  guilt,  I  can't  iouk  up  : 
I  lofe  my  life,  I  lofe  my  foul, 
Except  thy  mercy  makes  me  whole. 
Thou  know'ft  what  'tis,  Lord,  to  be  (ick, 
And,  thp*  almighty,  haft  been  weak: 
in  thou  haft  none,  and  yet  didti  die 
For  guilty  finners,  fuch  as  I. 
Sin's  rankling  fores  my  foul  corrode  ; 

Oh !  heal  them  with  thy  balmy  blood  ; 
I  And  if  thou  &o&  my -health  reftore, 

Lord,  let  me  ne'er  offend  thee  more. 

Or  if  I  never  more  mutt  rife, 
v  But  death's  cold  hand  muft  clofe  my  eyest 

Pardon  my  fins,  nnd;i:kc  me  '>o:r;es 

O  come,  Lord  Jeius,  quickly  corn*. 

LX. 

VIST  HEN  pining  ficknefs  waives  the  frame* 
v  *     Acute  diieafe,  or  tiring  pain  : 
'  •  hen  lire  faitfpends  her  feeble  fiamCj 
And  all  the  help  of  man  proves  vaia  : 


all  ear ; 

ie  fpir'ts  are 

tan't  ea.^-  '>eer  ; 

Nor  food Tupport,  nor  1 

3  '« 3  en,  then  to  haverect  iodj 
To  pour  a  ]                              sed  : 
And  fee!  thje  balm  of  jefu's  blood— 
This  is  to  find  a  friend  indeed. 

4  Ai  '  lot, 

to  the  Lord  by  faith.  . 
He  .  t  it  not  j 

In  pain,  in  (icknefs,  orind     ... 

Ho.  :'  id  portion  be  : 

Shai  t;  thy; 

And  foftiy  whifper>  *' i  ." 

I 

T  h  y  g  fe : 

To:.. 

And  from  th'  rfc. 

thon  a  moment1  mourn 

itervene  ; 
He'll  g**e  thee  power,  till  light  return, 

To  trull  him,  with  the  cloud  between. 


YE 


XLI. 
Death.    3  H 

E  fons  ni  \         -> 


Am 

Awal  ■■■-• 

Jteflc<  put  your  truA. 


HART*    HYMNS.  1I7 

Life  is  a  lMJy,  fair  to-day, 

To-morrcw  into  th'  oven  thrown; 

Health  foon  will  fail,  and  ilrength  decay, 
\  No  help  in  pow'r,  in  riches  none. 

Ah!  what  avails  the  pompous  palli 

The  J able Jloles,*  the  plumed  herfc I 

To  rot  within  fome  facred  wall, 
,  Or  wound  a  ftone  with  lying  verfe  I 

'Tis  deftin'd,  all  men  once  mail  die, 

And  after  death  receive  their  doom  : 

Then  whither  will  th'  ungodly  fly  ? 

Or  thofe  who  carelefsly  prefume  ? 

Bleffed  are  they,  and  only  they, 

Who  in  the  Lord,  the  Saviour  die  ; 

Their  bodies  wait  redemption's  day» 
\  An  J  fleep  in  piece  where'er  they  lie. 
j  Where  is  thy  vicVry,  where  thy  fting, 

Thou  griefly  king  of  terrors,  death  ; 
|:  We  worms  defy  thee,  while  we  ling, 

And  trample  on  thy  pow'r  by  faith. 


XLII. 

T7ATN  man,  thy  fond  pntfuits  forbcai 
V     Repent :  thy  end  is  nigh  : 
D^ath  at  the  fartbeft  can  t  be  far : 

Oh!  think  before  thou  die. 
Rerlecl,  thou  haft  a  foul  to  fave  : 

Thy  fips,  how  high  they  mount! 
What  art  thy  hopes  beyond  the  grave  ? 

How  {lands  that  dark  account? 
Death  enters^  and  there's  no  defenc-s, 

Kis  time  there's  none  can  re;i : 
llejl  in  a  moment  call  thcz  keottj 

To  heaven  or  to  hell. 
G 


i^B  IfJR7,,s   HTMNS* 

4  Thy  flefh,  pethnps  thy  chiefefl:  care> 

8ha!!  crawling  worms  confume  : 
But,  ah  !  deftru&ion  flops  not  there,. 
Sin  kills  beyond  the  toiab, 

5  To-day,  the  g  of  pel  calls,  to-day, 

Sinners,  it  fpeaks  to  you  : 
Let  ev'ry  one  forfake  his  way, 
And  mercy  willenfue: 

6  Rich  mercy,  dearly  bought  with  blood, 

How  vile  foe'er  he  be  ; 
Abundant  pardon,  peace  with  God, 
Aii  giv'n  entirely  free. 

XLin. 

I       "V^E  bold  bbfpheming  foul?, 

X     Whofe  confcienc!  nothing  fcares 
Ye  carnal  coid  profedlng  fools* 
Whofe  ftate's  as  bad  as  rheir's  : 
4      Ye  ftropg  deluded  lights,. 

Whofe  faith's  too  flout  to  pray  ; 
And  ve,  whom  proud  perfection  cheats^ 
As  free  from  fin  as  tbey ; 

3  The  awful  change,  not  far, 
DifTolves  carhg^id'.n  dream: 

Death  will  diilinguilli  what  ycu  are, 
From  what  you  only  feem. 

4  Repent,  or  you're  undone, 
^nd  pray  to  God  with  fpeed  : 

Perhaps  the  truth  may  yet  be  known, 
And  make  you  free  indeed. 

5  The  hour  of  death  draws  nigh, 
'Tis  time  to  drop  the  mafk  : 

fail  at  the  feet  or  Chrift,  and  cj  y  J 
He  gives  to  ail  ibat  j& 

f 


(HART's    HTMNS>  %$$ 

Good  Shepherd  of  the  fhsepa 
Aboliiher  of  death, 
O  give  us  all  repentance  deep; 
And  purifying  faith. 


XLIV. 
4  Funeral  Hymns* 
1      '"PHE  fpirits  of  the  juft, 

A    Con&Vd  in  bodies,  groan, 
'Till  death  couiigns  the  cor  pie  to  dufh 
And  then  the  eonflicVs  dos:e. 
I      Jefas,  who  came  to  iave, 
The  Lamb  for  Goners  fiain, 
Perfuru'd  the  chambers  of  the  grav^ 
And  made  ev'n  death  our  gain. 

3  Why  fear  we  then  to  truft 
The  place  where  Jefus  lay? 

In  quiet  refts  our  brother's  dull, 
And  thus  it  Teems  to  fay ; 

4  "..Forbear,  rny  friends?  to  weep, 
"  Since  death  has  loft  its  fling  .* 

"  Thofe  Chriftians  that  in  Jefus  fleep, 
"  Our  God  will  with  him  bring." 
$      This  meflage  then  receive, 
And  grief  indulge  no  more: 
Return  to  work  awhile,  believe. 
And  wait  the  welcome  hour. 


XLV, 
OOKS  of  God  by  bleft  adoption, 
O  View  the  dead  with  fteady  eyes| 
What  is  fown  thus  jn  corruption. 
Shall  in  ^corruption  riie. 


*S 


9o  HJRT's   HTMNS. 

What  is  fown  in  death's  difhonor, 
S1 ball  levive  to  glory's  light; 
What  is  fown  in  this  weak  manner, 
Shall  be  rais'd  in  match itis  might. 

i  Earthly  cavern,  to  thy  keeping 
We  com 'II it  our  brother's  dull : 
Keep  it  fafely,  foftly  fleeping, 
'Till  our  Lord  demand  thy  trufr.  : 
Sweetly  .Qeep,  dear  faint,  in  Jefus, 
Thou,  with  us,  (hah  wake  from  death  : 
Hold  he  cannot,  tho*  he  ieize  uzt 
We  his  pow'r  defy  by  faith. 

3  Jefus,  thy  rich  confolations 
To  thy  mourning  people  fend  ; 
May  we  all,  with  faith  and  patience, 
Wait  for  our  approaching  end: 
Keep  from  courage  vain  at  vaunted; 
Foi  oar  change  cur  hearts  prepare; 
.  Give  us  confidence  undaunted, 
Cheerful  hope,  and  godly  fear. 


aLVI. 

i  pHRTST!  IKS,  vie_w  this  folemn  fceae, 
v-*'   And,  if  vour  fouls  be  fad, 
Look  beyond  the  c'oud  between, 

A.j.j  lei  v.  ur  hearts  be  glad. 
Never  from  youi  mem'r*  lofe 

efurreclion  of  the  juft  ; 
Death's  a  bluffing  now  to  thofe 
Who  is  in  our  Jefus  truft 
•m  Deep  interr'd  in  earth's  daik.  womb 
I  he  mojuld'ring  body  lies  ; 
But  the  Christian  from  the  tomb 
Shall  iooii  triumphant  rife. 


HJRT's  HTMNS,  191 

jefus  (Thrift,  tnerighteaas  fudge, 
For  all  his  people's  fics  was  Hair  : 
Give  the  Saviour,  without  gradgt, 
The  purchafe  of  hh  pain. 

3  Now  the  grave's  a  downy  bed, 
Embroider'd  round  with  bloods 
Say  not  the  believer's  dead, 

He  only  reits  in  God. 
Lord,  we  long  to  be  at  home, 
Lay  down  our  heads,«and  fleeo  in  thee  j 
Come,  Lord  Jefus,  quickly  come, 
And  fet  thy  prisoners  free. 


XLVIL 

I  T7OUNTAIN  of  life,  who  gav'ft  us  breath, 
JL    Eternal  frre,  by  all  ador'd  ; 
Who  mak'ftusconqu'rors  over  death, 
Thro'  Jefus  our  victorious  Lord. 

%  We  give  thee  thanks,  we  fing  thy  praife, 
For  calling  thus  thy  children  home, 
And  fhort'ning  tribulation  days? 
To  hide  them  in  the  peaceful  tomb, 

3  Jefus,  confiding  ib  thy  name* 

Thou  King  of  faints,  thy  body's  head, 
We  give  to  earth  the  breath!efs  frame, 
Rememb'ring  thou  thyfelf  waft  dead, 

4  Thine  was  a  bitter  death  indeed, 
Thou  harmlefs  faff 'ring  Lamb  of  God  : 
Thou  haft  from  hell  thy  people  freed* 
And  drown'd  d«ftru£Hon  in  thy  blood. 


r$2  ffJRTs   HTMNS. 

;xlviii. 

Tf*e  Resurrection.     3  Hymns. 

1  HTHE  praife  of  Chrift,  ye  Chriftians,  founds 
A     His  mighty  ads  be  told  : 
Death  has  receiv'd  a  deadly  wound, 
He  takes  but  cannot  hold. 
«i  Clipt  are  the  greedy  vulture's  claws, 
Is'o  more  we  dread  his  pow'r: 
He  gapes  with  adamantinejaws, 
And  grins,  but  can't  devour. 

3  Believers  irt  their  darkfome  graves 

Shall  ftart,  to  light  reftor'd ; 
Forfake  their  monumental  caves. 
And  mount  to  meet  the  Lord. 

4  Not  long  in  ground  the  dying  graia 

Is  hid,  or  lies  forlorn  ; 
Hut  foon  revives,  and  fprings  again, 
And  ccmes  to  Handing  corn. 

5  So,  waking  from  the  womb  c^earth, 

Where  Chrift  has  lain  before, 
And  bursting  to  a  better  birth, 
We  rife  to  die  no  more. 

6  The  wicked  too  /hall  rife  again; 

The  difference  will  be  this  : 
They  rife  to  evei  lading  pain, 
And  faints  to  endlefs  blifs. 


XLlX. 

t  pLEAS'D  we  read,  in  facred  dory. 

*    How  our  Lord  refum'd  his  breath: 
Where,  O  grave's,  thy  conquering  glory? 
Where's  thy  (ling,  thou  phantom,  death? 


fl ART's   ErMNH.  m 

Soon  thy  jaws,  refixain'd  from  chewing, 

Muffcdiigorge  their  ranfom'd  preys 
Man  firft  gave  thee  pow'r  to  rum- 
Man  too  takes  that  pow'r  away. 
B  I  am  Alpha,  fays  the  Saviour, 
I  Omega  like  wife  am  : 
I  was  dead,  and  live  for  ever, 

God  Almighty  and  the  Lamb. 
In  the  Lord  is  our  perfetficffl, 

And  in  him  our  boaft  we'll  make  i 
We  (hall  (hare  his  refurrecli»n, 
If  we  othis  death  partake, 
«  Ye  that  die  without  repentance, 

Yettja'ft  rife,  when  ChriR  appears  % 
Rife  to  hear  your  dreadful  iefltence, 
While  the  faints  rejoice  in  theirs, 
You  to  dwell  with  fiends  internal, 

They  with  Jefus  Chrift  to  reign  : 
They  go  into  life  eternal, 
You  to  everlafting  Paitl\ 
4  Sold  rebellion,  bafe  hackfhding. 

Stop  your  com  fe,  refieclwim  dread, 
In  deftru&on  theie's  no  hiding ; 

Death  and  hell  give  up  their  dead. 
Bv'ry  fea,  and  lake,  and  ntcr, 

Shall  reftore  their  dead  to  view  « 
&outforg!adnefs,Obehever, 
Chrift  is  ris'n,  andfo  lhallyoa. 


t  VE  Chriftians,  hear  the  joyful  news, 
1    Death  hath  reeeiv'd  a  deadly  bruiief 
Our  Lord  has  made  his  empire  fall, 
And  conquer'd  him  that  conquer'd  all       % 
Conquer'd,  conquer'd,  conquer'd,  conquer  a5 
conquer'd  hira  that  conquer'd  all* 


i-4  HART*    HTMKS. 

a  Tho*  coom'd  are  al!  men  cnce  to  die, 
Yet  we  by  faith  death's  pow'r  defy ; 
We  foon  (bail  feel  his  bands  unbound, 
Awaken'd  by  tM  archangel's  found. 

Waken'd,  waken'd,  &c. 

j  The  trwmp  of  God  (hall  rend  the  rocks, 
And  open  adamantine  locks: 
Bring  forth  the  dead  from  death's  dark  dome, 
And  Jefus  calls  his  rcinfom'd  home. 

Jefus,  Jefus,  &c. 

4  Ye  finners,  timely  warning  take, 
Turn  to  the  Lord,  your  ways  forfake  ; 
And  hope  thro'  God's  almighty  pow'r* 
The  happy  refurre&icn  hour. 

Happy»  happy,  &c. 

LI. 

The  Day  of  Judgment.  3  Hymns. 

1    A  WAKE,  ye  fleeping  fouls,  awake, 
**  *  And  hear  the  God  of  Ifra'J  fpeakj 
His  word  is  faithful,  firm  and  true, 
Sinners,  attend,  he  fpeaks  to  you. 

a  Mercy  and  vengeance  in  me  dwell. 
One  lifts  to  heav'n  one  cafts  to  hell ; 
My  favor's  more  than  life,  my  wrath 
Will  burn  beyond  the  bounds  of  death. 

g  Short  isthefpace,  and  death  muftcome, 
And  after  death  the  day  of  doom ; 
When  quick  and  dead  the  judge  mall  call* 
And  deal  their  due  deferts  to  all. 

4  Fixt  in  their  everlafting  ftate, 
Could  men  repent,  'twere  then  too  late : 


IJJRT's   HTMN&  tdi 


i  J 


Juftice  has  bo'ted  mercy's  dcor, 
And  God's  long-fuff'ii.ng  is  no  more. 
5  'Tis  w.y  the  gofpel  mefiiige  fent 
Commands  repentance,  pd*u)  repent  J 
Wifely  be  warned,  to  refuge  nin. 
Obey  the  Fathe  r,  ki  is  the  Son . 
t  6  In  Chrift  receive  the  gift  of  God, 
1      Complete  redemption  thro'  hi*  blood  | 
Mercy  triumphant,  fin  forgiv'n, 
And  everlafdng  life  in  heav'n. 


L1I. 

Behold!  wh&itrfui pomp, 
The  Judge  prepares  to  ;  d .?, 

ThJ  aichangel  founds  the  dreadful  uumpj 

And  wakes  the  gen'ial  doom, 

Nature,  in  wild  amaze, 

Her  diiloiution  mourns ; 
Bluflies  of  blood  the  moon  deface, 

The  (an  to  darknefs  turns. 

The  living  look  with  dread ; 

The  frighted  dead  arife— 
Start  from  the  monumental  bed* 

And  lift  their  ghaiily  eyes. 

Horrors  ail  hearts  appal ; 

They  quake,  they  fhriek,  they  cry* 
Bid  rocks  and  mountains  on  them  fall* 

But  rocks  and  mountains  fly. 

Ye  wilful  wanton  fools, 

Let  danger  make  you  wife ; 
Carnal  profeflbrs,  carelefs  fouls* 

Unclofe  your  lazy  eyes. 


iqS  HART'S    HTMNSs 

6  fT'is  time  we  ail  awake  ;  ? 
The  dreadful  day  draws  near : 

Sinner$,  your  proud  presumption  cheeky 
And  /top  your  wiid  career. 

7  Now  is  th' accepted  time  ; 
To  Chrift  for  mercy  fly: 

O  turn,  repent,  and  truft  in  him, 

And  you  fhali  never  die. 
t      Great  God,  in  whom  we  live, 

Prepare  us  for  that  day  : 
Help  us  in  Jeftis  to  believe, 

To  watch,  and  wait,  and  pray. 

LIII. 
i  O  INNER,  that  flamb'reft  on  the  brink 
Of  heiPs  devouring  lake, 
O  think  on  death,  on  judgment  think  ; 
What  mean'ft  thou,  lleeper?  Wake. 
2  Soon  (hall  the  Lord  himfeir'defcend, 
The  clouds  before  him  driv'n: 
A  fadden  ihout  the  earth  (hall  rend, 
And  fhake  the  pow'rs  of  heav'n. 
t;  Myriads  of  angels  bright  (hall  wait, 
His  orders  to  obey; 
And  ramornM  faints  triumphant  meet, 
As  bright  and  bleft  as  they. 
4  The  King  (hall  lend  his  fummons  forth, 
His  raeiTengers  (ball  fpeed, 
From  eait  and  weft,  from  fouth  and  north, 
To  cite  the  quick  and  dead. 
r  But,  ah!  what  pale,  what  ghaftly  looks  1 
When  guilty  wretches  come, 
To  hear  from  Gods  unerring  bockf> 
Their  j  aft  tho'  dreadful  doom  I 


^  Convinc'd  of  ev'ry  wanton  word, 
Of  ev'ry  dating  fin, 
Of  fpeeches  hard  againfl  the  Lord* 
And  thoughts  and  ads  unclean, 
y  Save  us,  O  Jefus,  by  thy  death, 
Andtleanfe  us  in  thy  blood: 
Give  us  to  live  and  die  in  faith, 
And  wait  the  trump  of  God, 


•   LIV. 

Hell. 

|  T^HE  dev'l  can  felf-denial  ufe» 

L    And  that  with  dev'Iiili  feliidi  views; 
His  being  and  his  ftate  difown, 
And  teach,  that  dev'i  or  hell  there's  none, 

2  But  hear  the  words  of  God5  O  man, 
"  Sinners,  amongft  you  all  who  can 
"  Wiih  everlaflin-g  burnings  dweU? 
"  The  wicked  (hail  be  cafVto  hell.** 

3  Hell  is  that  woeful  dreadful  place, 
Where,  Jefus  never  (hews his  face; 
Where  fmners  daran'd  with  dev'ls  remain^ 
In  hopelefs  horrors,  endlefs  pain! 

4  God's  wrath  without  his  mercy^s  there- 
Wrath  without  mercy  who  can  bear'? 
How  hot  the  fire,  how  huge  the  ioad> 
Thy  fu£F*  rings  /hew,  thou  Son  of  God, 

£  O  man,  let  goodnefs  make  thee  melt ; 
Con  fid  er  what  the  Lord  has  felt : 
Repent,-snd  to  thy  Saviour  turn, 
I  ho  burn'^that  thou  migbt'ft  never  htt^ 


i9*  HJZ2"s   H2"MNS., 

LV. 

Heaven. 

I  *^LTE  fouls  that  trull  in  Ch'rift  f  cjo^ce^ 
X     Yonr  fins  are  all  forgiven  ; 
Let  ev'rv  Chriftian  lift  hb  voice, 
And  ling  the  joys  of  heav'n. 

a  Heav'n  is  that  holy  happy  place, 
Where  fin.  no  m^ie  denies  j 
Where  God  unveils  his  blifaful  facei 
And  k>oks>  and  lores,  and  fmiies. 

3  Where  Jefus,fon  of  man  and  God,. 

Triumphant  from  his  wars, 
Walks  in  rich  garments  dipt  in  blood* 
And  /hews  his  glorious  fears. 

4  Where  ranfom'd  tinners  found  God's  praift 

Th'  angelic  hofls  among  ; 
Sing  the  rich  wonders  of  his  grace, 
And  Jefus  leads  the  fong. 

5  Where  faints  are  free  from  ev'ry  load 

Of  pailions,  or  of  pains  : 
God  dwells  in  them,  and  they  in  God>  ' 
And  love  for  ever  reigns. 

6  Eye  hath  not  (etn^  nor  ear  hath  heard, 

Nor  can  the  heart  conceive, 
All  that  the  blood  of  Chriitprocur'd, 
Or  all  that  God  can  give. 
I  Lord  as  thou  (hew'ft  thy  glory  there, 
Make  known  t»iy  grace  to  us  ; 
And  heav'n  will  not  be  wanting  here, 
While  we  can  hymn  thee  thu». 


HARTs    HrMNS.  199 

3  jefus  our  dear  Redeemer  died, 
That  we  mi^n  be  forgiv'n  ; 
Rofe,  that  we  might  be  justified, 
And  lends  the  Spir't  from  heav'a. 


LVI. 
Goob  Works.    3  Hymns* 

I  TN  vain  men  talk  of  living  faith, 
JL  When  all  their  works  exhibit  deaths 
When  they  indulge  fome  (ihful  view 
In  all  they  fay,  and  all  they  du. 

%  The  true  believer  fears  the  Lord, 
Obeys  his  precepts,  keeps  his  word  5 
Commits  his  works  to  God  alone, 
And  ieeks  ^will  before  his  own, 

3  A  barren  tree,  that  bears  no  fruit, 
Brings  no  great  glory  to  its  rout : 
When  on  the  boughs  rich  fruit  we  fee, 
Mis  then  we  cry,  "  A  goodly  tree!'* 

4  Never  did  men  by  faith  divine 
To  felfifhnefsor  floth  incline; 

The  Chriftian  works  with  all  his  power? 
And  grieves  that  he  can  work  no  mote. 

LVJI. 

1  "tXTHEN  filthy  paffions  or  unjuft: 
vv    Profeflbrs  minds*  controul ; 
When  men  give  up  the  reigns  to  luff. 
And  int'reft:  fways  the  whole : 
a  Or  when  they  feek  themfelves  to  pleafe* 
Decline  each  thorny  road, 
Indulge  their  floth,  confult  their  eafe, 
And  flight  the  fear  of  God : 


ioe  RAkVs    BfMNSu 

l  The  faith  is  vain  fuch  men  profefs, 
It  comes  not  from  above ; 
The  righteous  man  does  righteoufnefs, 
And  true,  faith  works  by  love. 
4  Men's  anions  with  their  minds  will  fuit| 
By  them  the  heart  is  view'd  : 
A  tree  that  bears  corrupted  fruit 
Cannot  be  called  good. 
$  The  Chriftian  feeks  his  brother's  good* 
Sometimes  beyond  his  own; 
Or  if  felf-int'reft  will  intrude, 
It  does  not  reign  alone. 
6  Help  us,  dear  Lord,  to  honor  thee; 
Let  our  good  works  abound  : 
Thou  art  that  green,  that  fruitful  tree, 
From  thee  our  fruit  is  found. 


VAIN  man,  to  boaft  forbear 
The  knowledge  in  thy  head  £ 
Thefocred  fcriptures  this  declare, 

Faith  without  works  is  dead. 

When  Chrift  the  judge  (hall  come, 

To  render  each  his  due; 
He'll  deal  thy  deeds  their  righteous  doonij 

And  fet  thy  uorks  in  view. 

Food  to  the  hungry  give  ; 

Give  to  the  thirfty  driak : 
To  follow  Chrift  is  to  believe  : 

Dead  faith  is  but  to  think. 

The  mafl  that  loves  the  Lord 

Will  mind  v/hite'er  he  bid  s 


MJR2fs  HYMNS.  t«i 

Will  pay  regard  to  all  his  word, 

,And  do  as  Jefus  did. 

The  dead  profeflbr  counts 

Good  works  as  legal  ties : 
Kis  faith  to  aclion  ieldom  mounts; 

On  doclrine  he  relies. 

But  words  engender  flrife  ; 

Behold  the  gofpel  plan  : 
Truft  in  the  Lord  alone  for  life> 

And  do  what  good  you  can. 


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UX. 
F^epentance,     2  Hymns. 

H&T  variou#>ways  do  men  invent 
Fo  give  the  confcience  eafe  : 
Some  fav*  believe,  and  feme,  repent, 
And  fome  fay,  ftnve  to  pleafe. 
ft  But,  brethren,  (Thrift,  and  Chrift  alone 
Can  rightly  do  thethinpr: 
Nor  ever  can  the  way  be  known, 
'Till  he  falvation  bring. 

3  What  mean  the  men  that  Ay,  ht\\t^rzy 

And  Jet  repentance  go  ? 
What  comfort  can  the  fod  receive 
Tha»-  never  felt  it's  woe  f 

4  Chi  ill:  fays,  "*  That  I  might  finners  call 

"  To  penitence  I'm  fent :" 
And,  "  Likewifeye  Ihall  perifh  all, 
"  Except  ye  do  repent/* 

5  Thofe  who  sre  call'd  by  grace  divine 

Beiieve,  but  not  alone  : 
Repentance  to  their  faith  they  join, 
And  h  go  fafely  on. 


203  IIJRT's   HTMNS. 

6  But  mould  repentance,  or  mould  faith, 
Should  both  deficient  feem ; 
Jefus  gives  both  (the  (capture  faith) 
Then  aik  them  both  of  him. 


LX. 

1  O  EPENTANCE  is  a  gift  beftowM, 
Ja  To  fare  a  foul  from  death  : 
Gofpel  repentance  towards  God 

Is  always  join'd  to  faith. 

2  Not  for  an  hour,  a  day,  a  week, 

Do  faints  repentance  own  ; 
But  all  the  time  the  Lord  they  fedfc 
At  (in  they  grieve  and  groan. 

3  Nor  is  it  fuch  a  difmal  thing, 

As  'tis  by  fome  men  nam'ds 
A  finner  may  repent  and  fmg, 

Rejoice  and  be  amam'd. 
4.  'Tis  not  the  fear  of  hell  alone, 

For  that  may  prove  extreme  ; 
Repenting  faints  the  Saviour  owa* 

And  grieve  for  grieving  him. 
5  If  penitence  be  quite  left  out* 

Religion  is  but  halt ; 
And  hope,  tho'  e'er  fo  clear  of  douU* 

Like  off 'rings  without  fait. 

LXI. 

Believe  only.    Luke  viii.  5*. 
1  •TEAL  extinguifh'dto  a  fparkl 
JLi  Life  is  very  very  low; 
All  my  evidences  dark  1 
And  good  woiks  I've  noac  to  ftiQW* 


HARVt-HTMNS.  203 

Pray'r  too  feems  a  load  ; 
Ordinances  teizeor  tire; 
leaf*  feel  no  love  to  God, 
,   Hardly  hare  a  good  defire. 
Tho'  thy  fainting  fpirits  droop, 

Yet  thy  God  is  with  thee  ftili  1 
To  believe  in  hope  'gainfl  hope, 

And  againft  thee  all  things  feel, 
Only  to  believe,  9 

'Midtt  thy  coldnefs,  doubts,  and  deatn3 
Can'ft  thou  not,  poor  f6ul,  perceive 

This  is  now  thy  work  of  faith  I 


LXII, 

Christ  is  Holy,    %  Hymns, 

t   TESUS,  Lord  of  life  and  peace, 
J  To  thee  we  lift  our  voice ; 
Teach  us  at  thy  hollnefs 

To  tremble  and  rejoice, 
Sweet  and  terrible's  thy  word ; 
Thou  and  thy  word  are  both  the  faraef 
Holy,  holy,  holy  Lord, 
We  love  thy  holy  name, 
t  Burning  feraphs  round  thy  throne 
Beyond  all  brightnefs  bright, 
Bow  their  baffrful  heads,  and  own 

Their  own  diminiifi'd  light. 
Worthy  thou  to  be  adorM, 
Lord  God  Almighty,  great  I  AM! 
Holy,  holy,  ho'y  Lord, 
Wc  love  thy  holy  name. 
3  Saints,  in  whom  thy  Spirit  dwells, 
Pour  out  their  foals  to  tfiee  s 


g*4  UJRT*%  KrMN$. 

Each  his  tale  in  fecret  tells, 

And  fighs  to  be  fet  free: 
Chrift  admii'd,  themfelves  abhorrM, 
They  cry  with  awe,  delight  and  fhame> 
Hoi  v»  holy,  holy  Lord, 

We  love  thy  holy  name. 

4  Men  whofe  hearts  admit  not  fear 

At  thy  perfections  aw'd, 
CJfe  thy  name  but  not  revere 

The  holy  child  of  God  : 
Thefe  thy  kingdom  own  in  word; 
Save  us  from  loyalty  fo  lame. 
Holy,  holy,  holy  Lord, 

We  love  thy  holy  name. 

5  Julr.  arfd  righteous  is  our  King, 

GUrious  in  holinefs: 
Tho*  we  tremble,  while  we  fing, 

We  would  not  wifti  it  lefs. 
Souls  by  whom  the  truth's  explor'd 
Wonders  of  mercy  beft  proclaim. 
Holy,  holy,  holy  Lord, 

We  love  thy  holy  name. 


LXIII. 
j  O  OD  is  a  high  and  holy  God, 
^Jr  Eternally  the  fame  : 
Holinefs  is  his  bleft  abode, 
And  Holy  is  his  name. 
«  The  holy  Father,  holy  Ghoft, 
Man  readily  will  own ; 
But  'tis  a  blefling  few  can  boaft, 
To  know  the  holy  Son. 
3  With  hearts  of  flint,  and  fronts  of  bra&j 
Some  talk  of  Chrift  their  head; 


HART' s    HTMNS,  205 

And  make  the  living  Lords  alas  I 

Companion  with  the  dead. 
Familiar  freedom,  lufcious  names? 

To  Chnfl  feme  fondly  ufe : 
Vifioos  of  wonder,  flafhy  frames, 

Are  others  utmoft  views. 
By  things  like  thefe  men  often  run 

To  this,  or  that  extreme ; 
Bat  that  man  truly  knows  the  Son? 

Who  loves  to  live  like  him. 
Lord,  help  us,  by  thy  mighty  pow'r 

To  gain  our  conftant  view  ; 
Which  iss  that  we  may  know  thee  more, 

And  more  referable  too. 


LXIV. 
The  stony  Heart. 

t  f\&1-  for  a  glanceof  heav'nly  day, 
V-/  To  take  this  ftubborn  ftone  away, 
And  thaw  with  beams  of  love  divine 
This  heart,  this  frozen  heart  of  mine. 

B  The  rocks  can  rent,  the  earth  can  quale  e* 
The  fea-*  can  roar,  the  mountains  make  : 
Of  feeling  all  things  fhew  fome  fign, 
But  this  unfeeling  heart  of  mine. 

3  To  hear  the  forrows  thou  haft  kit, 
Dear  Lord,  an  adamant  would  melt ; 
But  I  can  read  each  moving  line, 
And  nothing  mo?e  this  heart  of  mine* 

t.  Thy  judgments  too  unmov'd  I  hear, 
(Amazing  tho't!)  which  devils  fear, 
Goodnefs  and  wrath  in  vain  combine* 
T$  ftir  this  flupid  heart  of  mine* 


2o6  H JRT's    HTMN3. 

5  But  fomething  yet  can  do  the  deed, 
And  that  dear  fomething  much  I  need  ; 
Thy  Spirit  can  from  drofs  refine, 
And  move  and  melt  this  heart  oi  mine. 


LXV. 

Worthy  is  tie  Lamb  that  nuasjlain,  G?C. 

Revelation  v.  12. 

J  TT/E  6n£  trjy  praife,  exalted  Lamb, 

V  V     Who  (itt'ft  apon  the  throve  : 

Ten  thoufand  bleffings  on  thy  name, 

Who  worthy  art  alone. 
Thy  bruifed  broken  body  bore 

Our  fins  upen  the  tree ; 
And  now  thou  iiv'ft  for  evermore— 

And  now  we  live  thro'  thee.  Hal 

3  Poor  finners,  ling  the  Lamb  that  died  ; 

( What  theme  can  found  fo  fweet  ?) 
His  drooping  head,  his  ilreaming  fide, 

His  pierced  hands  and  feet ; 
With  all  that  fcene  of  fuff 'ring  love, 

Which  faith  prefents  to  view  : 
For  now  he  lives  and  reigns  above, 

And  lives  and  reigns  for  ycu. 

3  Was  ever  grace,  Lord,  rich  as  thine  ? 

Can  aught  be  with  it  nam'd  : 
What  pow'rful  beams  of  love  divine 

Thy  tender  heart  inflam'd ! 
Ye  angels,  hymn  his  glorious  name. 

Who  lov'd  and  conquet'd  thus : 
And  we  will  lite  wife  laud  the  Lambj 

for  he  was  flain  for  u$. 


IIJRT's   HTMNS,  io7 

LXVI. 

Stt  yen  Afstthns  en  Things  alove.  Col  Hi.  %. 
pOME  raife  your  thankful  voice, 
^  Ye  fouls  redeem'd  with  blood  j 
Leave  earth  and  all  its  toys, 

And  mix  no  more  with  mud. 
Dearly  we're  bought,  highly  efteem'd, 
Redeem'd,  wiih  Jefu's  blood  redeem'd: 

Chrillians  are  priefb  and  kings, 

All  born  of  heav'nly  birth  : 
Then  think  on  nobler  things, 

And  grovel  not  in  earth. 
)early  we're  bought,  highly  efleem'o*, 
ledeem'd,  with  Jefu's  blood  rede,  m'-d, 

With  heart,  and  foul,  and  mind, 

Exalt  redeeming  love : 
:  Leave  earthly  cares  behind, 

And  fet  your  minds  above. 
>early  we're  bought,  highiy  eiteem'd, 
ledeem'd,  with  Jefu's  blood  redeem'd. 

.  Lift  up  your  ravilh'd  eyes, 

And  view  the  glory  giv'n  : 
I  All  lower  thing?  defpife, 

Ye  citizens  ot  heav'n. 
3e^:  iy  we're  bought,  highly  efteem'd, 
Redeem 'd,  with  jefu's  blood  redeem'd. 

;   Be  to  this  worid  as  dead, 

Alive  to  that  to  come: 

i   Our  life  in  Chrift  i?  hid, 

Whofoon  (hall  call  as  home. 

r  i-  |  ,.,  gi^  highly clleeni'-?, 
..'ii"d,  with  Jefu's  biood  i edeem/i. 


*•»  HJRTs    HTMNS. 

Lxvir. 

Praising  Christ. 
t   JESUS  Chrift,  God's  holy  Lamb.         H«}. 

J    We  will  laud  thy  lovely  name; 

We  were  fav'd  by  God's  decree* 

And  our  debt  was  paid  by  thee. 
a  Thou  hall  wafti'd  us  in  thy  blood, 

Made  us  kings  and  priefts  to  God : 

Take  this  tribute  of  the  poor  ; 

Lefs  we  can't,  we  can't  give  more, 

3  Souls  redeem'd,  your  voices  raiie. 
Sing  your  dear  Redeemer's  praife^ 
Worthy  thou  of  love  and  laud, 
King  of  faints,  incarnate  God. 

4  Righteous  are  thy  ways,  and  true, 
lindleis  honors  are  thy  due : 
Grace  and  glory  in  thee  mine, 
Match  lefs  mercy,  love  divine. 

$  We,  for  whom  thou  once  waft:  fiaifli 
We  thy  ranfom'd  finner-train, 
In  this  one  requeft  agree* 
€C  Make  us  more  referable  thee/' 


LXVIII. 
Backsliders.     3  Hymns, 

BACKSLIDING  fouls,  return  to  God^ 
Your  faithful  God  is  gracious  ftil!, 
Leave  the  falfe  ways  ye  long  have  trod, 
A»d  he  will  all  backflidipgs  heal. 
Your  firft  e(poufals  call  to  mind, 
'lis  time  ye  lhouid  be  now  reclaimed,' 


HART's   HTMNS.  aoj 

What  fruit  could  ever  Chriftians  find, 
In  things  whereof  they're  now  afliam'd, 
The  indignation  of  the  Lord 
A  while  endure,  for  'tis  your  due  : 
But  firm  and  ftedfaft  {lands  his  word  % 
Tho'  you  are  failblefs,  he  is  true. 
Poorfamifli'd  prodigal,  come  home, 
Thy  Father's  houfe  is  open  yet: 
Much  greater  mercy  bids  thee  come 
Than  ail  thy  (ins,  tho'thefe  are  great. 
The  blood  of  Chrift  (a  precious  bloodf) 
Cleanfes  from  all  (in  (doubt  it  not) 
And  reconciles  the  foul  to  God, 
From  evVy  folly,  ev' ry  fault. 


LXIX. 

T>ESERTERS  to  the  camp  retur% 

*~*  Refume  your  former  pod  : 

Bewail  your  crimes,  your  bafenefs  mourn? 

For  yet  ye  are  not  loft. 
Yours  is  a  fad,  a  dangerous  cafe, 

Be  humble  and  repent : 
Mercy  you'll  find,  tho'  e'er  lb  bafe, 

The  moment  you  relent. 
Sinners  are  faVd  by  Jefu's  blood. 

How  vile  foe'er  they  be  ; 
Eternal  life's  the  gift  of  God, 

And  gift's  are  always  free. 
'Tis  not  by  works  of  righteoufnefsj 

Which  any  man  has  done  ; 
3ut  God  has  fent  his  Son  to  blefa«-* 

Return,  and  kifs  the  Son., 


*!•  HART i  HYMNS. 

LXX. 
t  T^ROM  pnis'nous  errors,  pleafing  cheats, 
JL    And  gilded  baits  of  fin, 
Which,  fwallow'd  as  delicious  meats, 
lnfeci  and  rot  within  ; 
a  Lord,  pardon  a  backflider  bafe 
Returning  from  the  dead, 
Afham'd  to  (hew  his  fhameful  face, 
Or  lift  his  guilty  head. 

3  Ah  !  what  a  fool  have  I  been  made, 

Or  rather  made  myfelf ! 
That  mariner's  mad  part  I  play*d, 
That  fees,  yet  ftrikes  the  fhelf. 

4  How  weak  mull  be  this  wicked  heart, 

Which,  boafting  much  to  know, 

Made  light  of  all  thy  bitter  fmart; 

And  wanton'd  with  thy  woe  \    - 

5  Monftrous  ingratitude,  I  own. 

Well  worthy  wrath  divine! 
Can  blood  fuch  horrid  crimes  atone  ?  ' 
Yes,  blood  fo  rich  as  thine. 

6  Then  iince  thy  mercy  makes  me  melt, 

My  baienefs  1  deplore  : 
Regard  the  grief  and  (hame  I've  felt, 
.     And  daily  make  them  more. 


LXXI. 
His  mercy  erJureth  for  ever.    Pfal  m  cxx  x  vi. 

GOD's  mercy  is  for  ever  fare, 
Eternal  is  his  name, 
His  mercy  is  forever  fure, 
As  long  as  life  and  fpeech  endure, 
My  tongue  this  truth  proclaim, 
His  meicy  is  for  ever  fine* 


BJRT's    HTMNS.  2it 

It  1  bafely  finned  again  ft  his  love, 
And  yet  my  God  was  good : 
\    His  mercy  is  for  ever  fare, 
I    His  favor  nothing  could  remove^ 
Fori  was  bought  with  blood. 
His  mercy  i3  for  ever  fare. 
{  That  precious  blood  atones  all  fin, 

And  fully  clears  from  guilt  % 
|   His  mercy  is  for  ever  fure, 
|  It  makes  the  fbuleft  finners  clean* 

For  it  was  for  finners  fpilt. 
|  His  mercy  is  for  ever  fure. 
I  He  rais'd  me  from  the  loweH:  {late* 

When  hell  was  my  defert : 
I    His  mercy  is  for  every  fure. 
I  broke  his  law,  and  (worfethan  that) 

Alas !  I  broke  his  heart. 
His  mercy  is  for  ever  fure. 
My  foul,  tfieti  haft  (let  what  will  ail ) 

A  never  changing  friend  i 
His  mercy  is  far  ever  fure. 
When  brethren,  friends,  and  helpers  fail 

On  him  alone  depend. 
His  mercy  i-s  for  ever  fure. 


LXXII, 

The  Lord-cur  h  ghtecujn^u  Jer.  xxifi.4, 
TEHOVAH  is  r-Y  righteoufaefs, 
-J1    Ink:::  i  one  Vll  boail  ; 
Jehovah  is  my  rigbteoufnefsj 
My  con^tfe  YM  mere}  faaij  confefk 
.    Who  feeks  and  faves  the  loft. 
Jehovah  is  my  rigbteoo&efsi 


2i|  HART's  HYMNS* 

%  When  funk  in  fears,  with  anguidi  preMj 

Bow'd  down  with  weighty  woe; 
Jehovah  is  my  righteoufnefs, 
£&y  weary  foul  in  him  finds  refl:, 

From  him  my  comforts  flow, 
Jehovah  is  my  righteoufnefs. 
g  I'll  lay  me  down,  and  fweetly  fleep, 

For  !  have  peace  with  God. 
Jehovah  is  my  righteoufnefs. 
And  when  1  wake  he  (hail  me  keep, 

Thro'  faith  in  Jefa's  blood. 
Jehovah  is  my  righteoufnefs. 
4  Ten  thoufand  and  ten  thcufand  foe? 

Shall  not  my  foul  deftroy. 
JehoVah  is  my  righteonfueis. 
My  God  their  counfels  overthrow?, 

And  turns  my  grief  to  joy. 
Jehovah  is  my  righteoufnefs. 

LXXIII. 
Salvation  to  the  Lamb. 

I  "pOORfinner,  come,  cafl  off  thy  fear, 
JL     And  raife  thy  drooping  head  : 
Come,  fing  with  all  poor  doners  here, 

Jefus,  who  once  was  dead. 
Salvation  fing,  nj  word  more  meet 

to  join  to  Jefa's  name ; 
Let  ev'ry  thankful  tongue  repeat, 

Salvation  to  the  Lamb. 
1  Saints,  from  the  garden  to  the  crofs 

Your  conqu'riflg  Lord  nm tue; 
Who,  dearly  to  redeem  your  Fofs, 

Groan'd,  bled,  and  dy'd  for  ydq : 


Now  reigns  victorious  over  death, 

The  glorious  great  I  AM. 
Let  ev'ry  fo«I  repeat,  with  faith> 

Salvation  to  the  Lamb, 
£  When  we  mcurr'd  the  wrath  of  Godj 

(Alas!  what  could  we  worfe?) 
He  came,  and  with  his  own  heart's  blood 

Redeemed  us  from  the  curfe.     . 
This  Pafchai  Lamb,  our  heav'nly  meats 

Was  roailed  in  the  flame. 
Repeat,  ye  ranfom'd  fcnlsj  repeat. 

Salvation  to  the  Lamb. 


LXXPf. 
Baptism.     3  Hymn*. 

i  TfATHER  of  heav'n,  we  thee  addref% 
A     (Obedience  is  our  view) 
Accept  us  in  thy  Son  and  hleft, 
The  work  v/e  have  to  do. 
$  Jefus.  as  water  well  applied, 
Will  make  the  body  clean  ; 
So  in  the  fountain  of  thy  fide. 
Walk  thou  the  foul  from  fad. 
|  Celeftial  Bqve,  defcend  from  high* 
And  on  the  water  brood ; 
And  with  thy  quickening  pow*r  apply 
The  water  and  the  blood. 
%  Great  God,  Three-One,  again  we  cal)# 
And  otir  requefts  renew  : 
Accept  in  Chrift,  and  blefs  withal 
The  work  we're  now  to  do* 


2H  HART*   HYMNS. 


B 


LXXV. 
Y  what  amazing  ways, 
The  Lord  vouchsafes  t'es^plain 
1  he  wonders  of  his  fov'reign  grace 
Towards  the  fons  of  men  ! 
a  He  ihews  us  fii  il  how  foul 
Cur  nature's  made  by  (in  : 
Then  teaches  the  believing  lbul 
The  way  to  make  it  clean. 

3  Our  baptifm  firft  declares, 

What  need  we've  all  t<*  cleanfe  : 
Then  Ihews  that  Chriftto  all  Gcd's  heir} 
Can  purity  difpenie. 

4  Water  the  body  laves  ; 

And  if  its  done  by  faith, 
The  blood  of  Jefus  furely  faves 
The  (inful  foul  from  death. 

5  Water  no  man  denies, 

But,  brethren,  reit  not  there; 
'Tis  faith  in  Chrift  that  juftines, 
And  makes  the  confeience  clear, 

6  Baptiz'd  into  his  death, 

We  rife  to  life  divine  : 
The  Holy  Spirit  works  the  faith, 
And  water  is  the  fign. 


LXXVI. 

t  pURtTD  in  baptifm  with  our  Lord, 
*•*  We  rife  with  him,  to  life  reftcrd* 
Not  the  bare  life  in  '^dam  loft, 
But  richer  fat,  for  more  it  coft. 


HART*s   HTMNS.  215" 

s  Water  can  cleanfethe  flefh  we  own, 
But  Chriil  Well  knows,  and^Chrift  alons, 
How  dear  to  him  our  cleaning  flood, 
Baptiz'dwith  fire,  and  bath'din  bioodv 

3  His  was  a  baptifm  deep  indeed, 
O'er  feet  and  body,  hands  and  head; 
He  in  his  body  purgM  oar  fin—* 

A  little  water  makes  us  ciean. 

4  Not  but  we  tafte  his  bitter  cup  ; 
But  only  he  could  drink  it  up  : 
To  burn  for  us  was  his  deiire, 
And  he  baptizes  us  with  fire. 

5  This  fire  will  not  confume  but  melt, 
How  foft,  compar'd  with  that  he  felt! 

Thus  eleans'd  fromnlth,andpurg'dfromdrois> 
Baptized  Chriftian,  bear  the  crois. 


LXXVII. 
Hymn  at  recommending  a  Minister, 

HOLY  Ghotfc,  infpire  our  praifes  ; 
Touch  oar  hearts,  and  tune  our  tongues3 
While  we  laud  the  name  of  Jefus, 
Heav'n  will  gladly  fliare  car  {bogs. 
Hefts  of  angels  bright  and  glorious, 
While  we  hymn  our  common  king, 
Will  be  proud  to  join  the  chorus, 
And  the  Lord  himfeif  will  fing. 
Raife  we  then  our  cheerful  voices 
To  our  God,  who,  full  of  grate? 
In  our  happinefs  rejoices, 
'And  delights  to  htar  us  praife, 
9  4 


2?6  kdRT9*   HTMNL 

Whofo  lives  upon  his  promife, 
Eats  his  flefh  and  drinks  his  bloodi 
All  that's  paft,  and  ali  to  come,  is 
For  that  foul's  eternal  good. 

3  Happy  foul !  vthat  hears  and  follows 
Jefu3  fpeaking  in  his  word  : 
Paul,  and  Cephas*  and  ApoHos, 
All  are  his  in  thrift  the  Lord. 
FVryftate,  howe'er  diftrefTmg, 
Shall  be  profit  in  the  end  ; 

Ev'ry  ordinance  a  blefiingi 
Ev'ry  providence  a  friend. 

4  Chriftian,  doft  thou  want  a.  teacher, 
helper,  counfellor,  or  guide? 
Wouldft  thou  find  a  proper  preacher  £ 
Pfk  thy  God,  and  he'll  provide. 
jBuild  on  no  man's  parts  or  merit, 
But  behold  the  gofpel  plan  i 

Jefus  fends  his  holy  Spirit, 
.And  the  Spirit  fends  the  man9 

5  Bleft,  dear  Lord,  each  lab'ring  fervant* 
Blefs  the  work  they  undertake: 
Wake  them  able,  faithful,  fervent, 
Blefs  them  for  thy  church's  fake. 

A?l  things  for  our  good  are  given, 
Comforts?  crorTes.  ftaffj,  or  rods : 
^1!  is  oars  in  earth  and  heaven- — 
We  are  Child's  and  Chrifl  is  God's. 


7 


LXXVIII. 

At  dismission.     5  Hymns, 
•|"VSMIS$  us  with  thybleflmg.  Lord* 
JLJ  Help  us  to  feeci  upon  thv  word, 
-All  that  has  been  amifs  fcrgive, 
And  let  thy  truth  within  us  ItYfe. 


HJRT'%   HrMNSi  tit 

Tho'  we  are  guilty,  thou  art  good  ; 
Waft  all  our  works  in  Jefu's  blood  3 
Give  ev'ryfetter'd  foul  releafe, 
And  bid  us  all  depart  in  peace. 


LXXIX. 
i  y~\NCE  more,  before  we  part, 

v^  Well  bJefs  the  Saviour's  name? 
Record  his  mercies,  e?'ry  heart, 

Sing,  ev'rv  tongue,  the  fame, 
2  Hoard  up  his  facred  word, 

And  feed  thereon,  and  grow  ; 
Go  on  to  feek  to  know  the  Lord-, 

-And  practife  what  you  known 


LXXX, 
B  T    ORD,  help  us  on  thy  word  to  feed^ 
■&-i  in  peace  difmifs  us  hence : 
Be  thou,  in  ev'ry  time  of  need, 
Our  refuge  and  defence. 
I  We  now  defire  to  blefs  thy  name* 
And  in  our  hearts  record, 
And  with  our  thankful  tongues  proclaim^ 
The  rroodnefs  of  the  Lord. 


lxxxl 

GUARDIAN  of  thy  helplefs  fheepj 
Jefus,  Almighty  Lord, 
Help  our  heedful  hearts  to  keep 

1  he  treafure  of  thy  word. 
Let  not  Satan  fteal  what's  fown, 
Sid  it  bring  forth  precious  fruit, 


2i3  HJRT's   HYMN 3. 

Thou  c^nfl  foften  hearts  of  ftone, 
And  make  thy  word  take  root. 


LXXXIT. 

JTATHER,  ere  we  hence  depart, 

Send  thy  good  Spirit  down, 
To  refide  in  ev'ry  heart, 

And  blefs  the  feed  that's  fown. 
Fountain  of  eternal  love, 
Thou  freely  gav'ft  thy  Son  to  die  ; 
Send  thv  Spirit  from  above 
To  quicken  and  apply. 


DOXOLOGIE3, 


I. 

O  PRAISE  the  Lord,  ye  heav*nly  ho&, 
The  fame  on  earth  be  done. 
Praife  Father,  Son,  and  Holy  Ghoft, 
The  great,  the  good  Three-One. 
II. 

TO  the  great  Godhead,  Father,  Son, 
And  Holy  Spirit,  Three  in  One, 
Se  glory,  praife,  and  honor  giv'n 
By  all  on  earth,  and  all  in  hsav'n* 

in. 

\X7ITH  all  the  heav'nly  hoft, 
vv    Let  Chriflians  join  to  laud 
The  Father,  Son,  and  Holy  Ghotf, 
Our  Saviour  and  our  God. 


IV. 

£MVE  glory  to  God, 
•       Ye  children  of  men. 
And  pubiifn  abroad 
Again  and  again 
The  Son's  glorious  merit, 
The  Father's  free  grace, 
The  gifts  of  the  Spirit, 
To  Adam's  loft  race. 

V. 

JTJLORY  to  th*  Eternal  be, 

■       Threein  One.  and  One  in  Three* 
God  that  pitied  Tinners  loft, 
Father,  Son,  and  Holy  Ghoft. 

VI. 

■y  E  fons  of  men  your  voices  raife, 

*    And  (log  th*  Eternal  Father's  praifCji 

And  glorify  the  Son  ; 
Give  glory  to  the  Holy  Ghoft, 
And  join  with  all  th'  angelic  hoffc 

To  blefs  the  great  Three- One. 

VII. 

WE  laud  thy  name,  Almighty  TordL 
The  Father  of  all  grace: 
We  laud  thy  name,  Incarnate  Word, 

Who  fav'dft  a  finful  race  : 
We  laud  thy  name,  bleil  Spir't  of  Truth; 

Who  doft  fajvarion  feal ; 
Incline  the  heart,  unclofe  the  moutbj 
And  fandify  die  will. 


APPI 


Chastisement.     3  Hymns. 

I  TU  APPY  the  man  that  bears  the  flrokfi 
XJL  Of  hischaflifiogGod: 
Nor  ftubbornly  reje&s  his  yoke, 
Nor  faints  beneath  his  red. 
ft  They  who  the  Lord's  correction  (hare, 
Find  favor  in  his  eyes  : 
As  kindeft  fathers  will  not  fpare 
Their  children  to  chaftife. 

3  Thy  Lord  for  nothing  would  not  chide  : 

Thou  Highly  mould'ft  efteem 
The  crofs  that  s  fent  to  purge  thy  pride* 
And  make  thee  more  like  him. 

4  For  his  correction  render  praife ; 

'Tis  given  thee  for  thy  good. 
The  lafn  is  freep'd  he  en  thee  lays, 
Andfoften'd  in  his  b'oed. 

5  Knew,  whom  the  Saviour  favors  much* 

Their  faults  he  oft  reproves  : 
He  takes  peculiar  care  of  fuch  ; 

And  chaftens  whom  he  loves. 
5  Then  kifs  the  rod,  thy  fins  confefs  : 

Tt  thai)  a  blefiing  prove  ; 
And  yield  the  fruits  of  nghteoufnefs, 

Humility  and  love. 

II. 
t  /""^  OLD  in  the  furnace  tried, 
V>"  Ne'er  lofs  aught  but  drofs  £ 
So  is  the  Chriftian  purifed. 
Arid  beiter'ri  by  thecroi's* 


HART's    HTMNS,  %z\ 

>,  Afflictions  make  us  fee 

(What  die  would  'fcape  our  fight) 
3ow  very  foul  and  dim  are  we  5 

And  God  bow  pure  and  bright, 
\  The  puniih?d  child  repents  ; 

The  parent's  bowels  move  1 
rh'  offended  father  focn  relents3 

And  turns  with  doubie  love, 
I  If  God  rebuke  for  pride, 

He'll  humble  thy  proud  heartj 
/for  thy  want  of  love  he  chide, 

That  love  he  will  impart. 
I  He  fhall,  by  means  like  thefe, 

Thy  ftubborn  temper  break  ? 
Jpften  thy  heart  by  due  degre£S3 
■  And  make  thy  fpint  meek. 
>  His  chaft'ning  Therefore  prize, 

The  privilege  ot  a  faint : 
rbeir  hearts  are  hard  who  that  defpife  ^ 

And  their's  too  weak  who  faint. 


III. 

TO  thee,  my  God,  I  make  my  plaint? 
To  thee  mv  trembling  foul  draws  nesr  % 
Let  not  thy  chaining  make  me  faint, 
Nor  guilt  overwhelm  me  with  defpair. 
What  tho'  thou  frown  to  try  mv  faith  ; 
What  tho*  thy  heavy  hand  ttfifeSt ; 
Thou  wilt  not  give  me  up  to  death, 
Nor  enter  into  judgment  llricl. 
3  I  know  thy  judgments,  Lord,  are  right, 
Thy  rod  commands  me  to  repent, 
|f  with  my  (in  compar'd,  'tis  light  *, 
Ajtd  ali  zn  faitfifulaeis  ;s  ie$t. 


ttt  HART's   HTMK- 

4  What  Woukfcny  blood  avail,  if  fpilt  ? 
Thou  hait  in  richer  bleed  been  pa~d  \ 
When  all  my  dreadful  debt  of  'guilt 
Was  on  my  dying  Saviour  laid. 

5  Then  help  me  by  thv  grace  t 
Whate'erthou  fend  to  purge  my  drofta 
If  in  his  crown  I  hope  to  (hate, 

Why  mould  1  grudge  to  bear  his  crofs£ 

6  Tho'  thou  feverely  with  me  deal* 
Still  will  I  in  thy  mercy  truft. 
Accompiifn  in  me  all  thy  will  5 
Only  remember,  I  am  duft. 


IV. 

Praying  for  Fruitfulness.  %  Hymns* 
i   1    ORD,  if  with  thee  part  I  bear, 

JLi  If  I  thro'  thy  word  am  clean  ; 

In  thy  rperCj  j  ifl  (hare; 

If  thy  Wood  has  purg'd  my  fiiu 

To  my  Dcedy  foul  impart 

Th\  it  from  ab,     , 

To  enrich  m>       1 1  ait 

With  Humility  and  Love.  • 
£  Lord,  my  heart,  a  defart  vail, 

I  h>  manuring  hand  requiies. 

Bin  has  laid  my  vineyard  wafte, 

tJ  ergrown  with  weeds  and  br> 

Thou  canft  make  this  defart  bloom. 

feveathe,  oh!  breathe,  ceieilial  Dov^ 

Till  it  blow  with  rich  perfume 

Of  Humility  and  hove. 
3  Vanquifti  with  me  iuft  and  pride, 

All  my  ftubbornneis  foodoe. 

Smile  m<  idt, 

lino  miWei  means  v. .  do. 


HJRT's   HTMNS. 

Ah!  companionate  my  cafe 
Let  the  poor  thy  pky  move. 
Give  me  of  thy  bound. 'els  grace, 
Give  Humility  and  Love. 

Why  ffiould  one  that  bears  thy  name, 
Why  fhculd  thy  adopted  child, 
Be  in  ifags  expos'd  to  fnarne, 
Like  a  favage  fierce  and  wild! 
With  thy  children  I  would  fir, 
And  not  like  an  alien  rove: 
Cloath  my  foul,  and  make  it  fit, 
With  Humility  and  Love. 

Create;!  miners,  greatly  fpar'd, 
Love  much;  and  themfeives  debafe. 
Mine's  a  paradox  too  hard, 
Rich  of  mercy,  pior  of  grace. 
Me  thou  hail  forgiven  much, 
(  This  my  (ins  too  plainly  prove) 
Give  me  what  thou  giveil  fuch, 
Humility  and  Love. 


i    |  F.SUS,  to  thee  I  make  my  moan  ; 
J    My  doleful  tale  I  tell  to  thee, 
For  thcu  canfl  help,  and  thou  abne, 
A  lifelefi  lump  of  (in  like  me. 

Fain  would  I  find  increaie  of  faith; 

it  'i  bloom: 
Lcit,  ah!  my  hes  barren  heath, 

Dialled  with  cold,  and  black  with  gloom. 


Tr"e'  true  thsm'fl  kindly  given  me  light, 
I  know  what  Chrifiians  ought  to  be. 
But  did  thn  edve  their  Gghtj 

Nothing  but  diVaval  things  to  fee. 


224  HJRT's   HYMNS. 

4  Tho*  winter  wafte  the  earth  a  while, 

Spring  loon  revives  the  verdant  meads, 

The  ripening  fields  in  fummer  fmile; 

And  autumn  with  rich  crops  fucceeds. 
j  But  I  from  month  to  month  complain, 

I  feel  no  warmth,  no  fruits  I  fee, 

I  look  for  life,  but  dead  remain; 

'Tis  winter  all  the  year  with  me. 
6  Vet  fin's  rank  weeds  within  me  live; 

Barrennefs  is  not  all  I  bear: 

I  do  not  fo  fox  nothing  grieve; 

Alas!  there's  worfe  than  nothing  there* 
?  Still  on  thy  promife  I'll  rely, 

From  whom  alone  my  fruit  is  found, 

Until  the  Spirit  from  on  high 

Enrich  the  dry  and  barren  ground. 

VI. 
The  brazen  Serpent.  Numb,  xxl 

i  "\TTHen  the  chofen  tribes  debated 

VV     'Gainft  their  God,  as  hardly  treated, 
And  complain'd  their  hopes  were  fpilt; 
God,  for  murm'ring  to  requite  them, 
Fiery  ferpents  ferit  to  bite  them, 
Lively  type  of  deadly  guilt. 
s  Stung  by  thefe  they  foon  repented; 
And  their  God  as  foon  relented. 
Mofes  pray'd ;  he  anfwer  gave: 
"  Serpents  are  the  beads  that  ftrike  them, 
"  Make  of  brafs  a  ferpent  like  them; 
"  That's  the  way  I  chufe  to  fave." 
3  Vain  was  bandage,  oiI,orj?laifter: 
Rankling  venom  kill'd  the  fafler; 
Till  the  ferpent  Mofes  took, 


BAR  T*s   HTMNZ. 

leai 'd  it  high,  that  all  might  view  it, 
Bid  the  bitten  lock  up  to  it: 

Life  attended  ev'ry  look. 
,  Jefus  thus*  for  finriers  fmitten, 
Wounded,  bruifed,  ferpent-bitten, 

To  his  crofs  directs  their  faith. 
Why  fhould  3  then  poifon  cherifh? 
Why  defpair  of  cure,  and  perifh? 

Look,  my  foul,  though  ftung  to  death. 
Thine's  (alas!)  aloft  condition, 
Works  cannot  work  thee  remiflion : 

Nor  thy  goodnefs  do  thee  good. 
Death's  within  thee,  ail  about  thee 5 
But  the  remedy's  without  thee; 

See  it  in  thy  Saviour's  blood. 
See  the  Lord  of  glory  dying! 
See  him  gafping  I  Hear  him  crying! 

See  his  burden'd  bofom  heave! 
Look,  ye  finners,  ye  that  hung  him; 
Look,  how  deep  your  fins  have  (lung  him; 
i   Dying  finners,  look,  and  live. 

VII. 
The  Relative  Duties. 
/CHRISTIANS,  in  your  feveral  ftations, 
V>f  Dutiful  to  all  relations, 

Give  to  each  his  proper  due. 
Let  not  their  unkind  behavior, 
Make  you  difobey  your  Saviour: 

His  command's  the  rule  for  you. 
Parents  be  to  children  tender; 
Children^  full  obedience  render 

To  your  parents,  in  the  Lord. 
Never  flight,  nor  difrefpec"t  them; 
Nor,  thro'  pri'de,  when  old,  reject  them^ 

*Tis  the  precept  of  the  word!. 


226  EAR  T's    HTMNS, 

3  Wiv*s  to  hufbands  yield  fubje<5tio.D,: 
Hufbands;  with  a  kind  affection, 

:i:h,  as  ycurfelves.your  wives. 
*    Matters,  rule  with  model 

Sway'd  by  jaftice,  not  by  paflion : 

he  lei  ip'tures  fqt  .vjs. 

4  Servants,  fcrve.  your  readers  truly, 
Not  unfaithful,  ncr  unruly, 

To  the  £,ccd,  nor  to  the  bad; 
Not'fiefufing  what  you're  bidden, 
Nor  replying  when  you're  chidden: 

"Ti    the  ordinance  of  God. 
c  This  thai!  folve  th*  important  queflion, 
Whether  thoifrt  a  real  Chrijlian? 

Better  than  each  golden  dream. 
Betu-r  far  than  lip  expreflion, 
Tow'ring  notions,  great  ~\A eft flion, 

This  mall  (Lew  your  love  to  him. 


VIII. 

The  Scriptures. 
I       Q  A  Y,  Chriftian,  wou'dft  thou  thrive 
O   In  knowledge  of  thy  Lord". 
Againfli  no  fcripture  ever  flrive, 
But  tremble  at  his  word. 
a      Revtre  the  facred  page, 
To  injure  any  part, 
Betrays,  with  blind  and  feeble  rage, 
A  hard  and  haughty  heart. 

3  If  aught  there  dark  appear, 

Bewail  thy  want  of  fight; 
No  imperfection  can  be  there, 
For  all  God's  works  are  right. 

4  The  fcriptures  and  the  Lord 
Dear  one  tremendous  name* 


BAR  T's   HTMNS..  2j£ 

The  written,  and  th'  incarnate  Word 
In  all  things  are  the  fame. 
$      For  Jefus  is  the  truth, 
As  well  as  life  and  way. 
The  two-edg'd  fword  that's  in  his  mouth. 
Shall  all  proud  reas'ners  flay. 
6      Why  doft  thou  call  him  Lord; 
And  what  he  fays  refift? 
The  foul  that  {tumbles  at  the  word, 
Offended  is  at  Chiift. 
?      The  thoughts  of  man  are  lies, 
The  word  of  Qod  is  true. 
To  bow  to  that  is  to  be  wife: 
Then  hear,  and  fear,  and  do. 


IX. 

Suffer  the  word  of  exhortatUit.  Heb.  xlii.  22, 

1  HPAKE  heed,  ye  Chriftians,  how  ye  hear, 
A    Pay  every  truth  refpecl, 
The  word  of  exhortation  bear; 
Nor  treat  with  cold  neglect. 
a  Defpife  not  thofe  that  would  you  warrr 
Remember,  this  is  true; 
He  that  his  duty  will  not  learn. 
His  duty  will  not  do. 

3  Who  flights  in  any  part  God's  word, 

Shews  a  too  haughty  look, 
The  flothful  foul  will  not  be  ftirr'd; 
Nor  fcorners  hear  rebuke. 

4  Better's  a  babe  that  would  be  wife. 

Than  thofe  who  mind  high  things ; 
Whofe  long  profeflion  fcorns  advice, 
Thofe  old  and  foolilh  kings. 
Hi 


2?3  HJR  T>*    HTM N  $ 

5  Lord,  let  me  not,  by  pride  entic'd, 
Thy  precepts  count  a  load. 
Help  me  to  keep  the  ^:ih  of 'C'-irift, 
And  the  commands  of  Gcd. 


X. 

REMEMBER,  man.  thy  birth  ; 
Set  net  on  gc!d  thy  hearr, 
Naked  thou  cam'il  upon  the  earth; 
And  nak?d  rauft  depart. 

This  world's  vain  wealth  defpife  ; 

Kappinefs  is  not  here; 
To  Jefias  lift  thy  longing  eyes, 

And  leek  thy  treafure  there.  • 

Be  wife  to  run  thy  race, 

And  caft  cffev'ry  load. 
Strive  to  be  rich  in  works  of  grace : 

Be  rich  towards  thy  Gcd. 

The  poor  man  may  thus  be  rich, 
Their  means  however  final!; 
When  rich  men  once  gave  very  much, 
Two  mites  exceeded  all. 

If  profit  be  thy  fcope, 
Diffufe  thy  alms  about : 
The  worldling  profpers  laying  up, 
The  Chriftian  laying  out. 

Returns  will  not  be  leant, 
Wjth  honor  in  the  high'ft  ; 
For  who  relieves  his  brethren's  want, 
Bellows  his  alms  on  Chrift. 

Give  gladly  to  the  poor ; 
"lis  lending  tc  the  Lord. 


.:■ 


HAP.  T'  3    h  r  u  : 

In  ferret  fo  increafe  thy  (lore  ; 
And  hioe  in  heaven  the  h'oatcfi 

|      There  thou  roay'fl  fear  no  thief; 
No  rankling  ruft  nor  moth, 
Thy  treafure  and  thy  heart  are  fafe ; 
Where  one  is,  will  be  both. 


XI. 

I  T   UKEWARM  fctils,  the  foe  £ro\vs  flrcngtr, 
jL^t  S?e  what  hoils  your  camp  furround  ; 
Arm  to  battle-  la^  no  longer  : 

Hark,  the  Giver  trumpets  found. 
Wake,  ye  fleepers,  wake  :  What  mean  you  ? 
Sin  befets  you  round  about. 
-Up  and  fearch.  The  wot  Id's  within  you; 

Slay  or  chafe  the  traitor  out. 
a  What  enchants  you  ;  pelf  or  pleafute  ? 

Pluck  right  eyes  ;  with  right  hands  part: 
Alk  your  ccnfcience,  where's  your  treafure  ? 

For  he  certain  there's  ycur  heart. 
Give  the  fawning  foe  no  credit; 

Lo!  the  bloody  flag's  unfuriU 
That  bafe  heart  (the  word  hath  faid  it) 
Loves  not  God,  that  loves  the  wcrid. 
5  God  and  Mammon  ?  Oh  be  wifer. 
Serve  them  both  ?  It  cannot  be. 
Eafe  in  warfare,  flint  and  mifer, 

Thcfe  will  never  well  agree. 
Shun  the  ihame  of  foully  falling 

Cumber 'd  captives,  clogg'd  with  clay; 
Prove  ycur  faith  ;  makefure  vour  calling  : 
Wield  the  fword,  and  win  the  day. 
4  Forward  prefs  toward  perfection. 

Watch  and  pray,  and  all  things  prove. 


z$o  HART's   NTMNS. 

Seek  to  know  your  God's  election; 

Search  his  everlafting  love. 
Dread  backfliding,  fcorn  diflembling, 

Now  falvation's  n#ar  in  view. 
Work  it  out  wiife  Tear  and  trembling: 

'Tis  your  God  that  works  in  you. 


XII. 
Pray  without  ceaftng.     x  Theff.  v.  17. 

PR  AYR  was  appointed  to  convey 
The  blefEngs  God  defigns  to  give, 
Long  as  they  live  (hould  Chriftians  pray  1 
For  only  while  they  pray  they  live. 
The  Chriftian's  heart  his  pray'r  indites  j 
He  fpeaks  as  prompted  from  within, 
The  Spirit  his  petition  writes, 
And  Chrift  receives  and  gives  it  in. 
And  wilt  thou  in  dead  filence  lie, 
When  Chrift  {lands  waiting  for  thy  pray'r  ? 
My  foul  thou  h?ft  a  Friend  on  high; 
Arife,  and  try  thy  int'reft  there. 
If  pain  afflict.,  or  wrongs  opprefs, 
If  csres  ciftracl,  or  fears  difmay  ; 
Ifguilt  deject,  if  (in  diftrefs, 
The  remedy's  before  thee;  Pray. 

'Tis  pray'r  fupports  the  foul  that's  weak; 
Tho*  thought  be  broken,  language  lame. 
Pray,  if  thou  canft.  or  canft  not  fpeak  $ 
But  pray  with  faith  in  Jefu's  name. 

Depend  on  him ;  thou  canft  not  fail. 
Make  all  thy  wants  and  wiihes  known. 
Fear  not,  his  merits  muft  prevail : 
Am  what  thou  wilt,  it  (hall  be  done. 


II J  R.  T's    H  1'  ZI  N  S.:         j 

XIII. 

The  Lord's  Fraybr. 

FATHER  of  Spir'ts  in  heaven  and  earth',' 
Higher  than  all  that's  ni[;: 
God  of  our  fit  ft  and  feconci  bii 
Father  of  Jefus  Chrift- 
%  Let  aii  with  rev'.'jrenc.e  and  with  love, 
Thy  facred  name  ac'^re. 
Set  up  thy  throne  al!  thrones  above., 
And  reign  for  everm.  ve. 
%  Help  us  thy  pleafure  to  fulfil, 
As  doitfc  by  heavenly  pow'rs. 
Accomplish  in  us  all  thy  will, 
And  let  that  will  he  ours. 

4  Cur  fouls  and  bodies  feed,  we  pray. 

With  food  that  thcu  feeft  fee  ft  ; 
We  afk  cur  portion  for  the  day, 
And  leave  to  thee  tht  reft. 

5  Let  mercy  pardon  all  our  crimes, 

Which  juftice  mull  condemn. 
As  fome  have  wrcng'd  us  many  times* 

And  we  would  pardon  them. 
£  Let  not  temptation  us  befal, 

Temptation  (rem  the  devi!  ; 
Butreicue  and  defend  us  all 

From  ev'ry  thing  that's  evil. 
".  Thine  is  the  kingdom,  thine  ih:  pcv/Vj 

O'er  apgeis,  and  o'.r  men; 
The  glory  too  for  evermore 

Kiz  thine.     Artefe.     Amek. 


BH 


INDEX 

TO  THE 

SUPPLEMENT. 

i  .  i 

A  Page.Hym* 

4XWAKE,  ye  fleeping  fouls, awake     194    51 

BACKSLIDING  foul,  return  to  God 
Behold !  with  awful  pomp 
Believer,  lift  thy  drooping  head 
Buried  in  baptifm  with  our  Lord 
By  which  amazing  ways 

CHRIST  is  th' eternal  rock 
Chriftians,  difmifs  your  fear 
Chriftians,  view  this  folemn  fcene, 
Come,  raife  your  thankful  voice 

DEEP  in  a  cold,  a  joylefs  cell 
Deferters  to  the  camp  return 
Difmifs  us  with  thy  bleffing,  Lord 

FAITH's  a  convincing  proof 
Father,  ere  we  hence  depart, 
Father  of  heav'n,  Almighty  King 
Father  of  heav'n,  we  thee  addrefs 
Fountain  of  Life,  who  gav'ft  us  breath 
From  pois'nous  errors,  pleating  cheats 

GIRD  thy  loins  up,  Chriftian  foldier 
Glory  to  God  on  high 
God  is  a  high  and  holy  God 
God's  mercy  is  for  ever  fure 
Guardian  of  thy  helplefs  (beep 


208 

68 

195 

6» 

178 

3* 

2x4 

7« 

ibid. 

75 

173 

»7 

179 

33 

199 

46 

107 

66 

177 

30 

309 

69 

a  16 

7« 

184 

38 

118 

8* 

155 

4 

*I3 

74 

191 

47 

aio 

70 

175 

*3 

155 

3 

204 

63 

ai© 

71 

»I7 

8.1 

1  JN  D  E  X. 

Page.tfym. 
"jt  AIL  thoubridegroom  bruis'd  todeath  158  8 
7±  Happy  the  man  that  fear  the  Lord 
[oly  Ghoft,  infpire  our  praifes 

[EHOVAH  is  my  righteoufnefs 
I  Jefus  Chrift,  God's  holy  Lamb 
:fus,  Lord  of  life  and  peace 
;fus  once  for  finners  flain 
;fus  our  triumphant  head 
j  vain  men  talk  of  living  faith 
)in  ev'ry  tongue  to  fin 

"    ORD  hear  a  reftlefs  wretch's  groans 
-i  Lord  help  us  on  thy  word  to  feed 
ord  fend  thy  Spirit  down 
ord  who  can  hear  of  all  thy  woe 

N  OW  for  a  theme  of  thankful  praife 

)  How  good  our  gracious  God  is 
Oh!  for  a  glance  of  heav'nly  day 
h  that  our  flinty  hearts  would  melt 
nee  more  before  we  part 
ace  more  we  come  before  our  God 

)ITY  a  helplefs  finner,  Lord 

Pleas'd  we  read  in  facred  flory 
or  finner,  come,  caft  of  thy  fear 

>  EPENT,  ye  fons  of  men,  repent 
I  Repentance  is  a  gift  beftow'd 

EE  from  the  dungeon  of  the  dead 
Sinner,  that  flumb'reft  on  the  brink 
ns  of  God  by  bleft  adoption 
fPring  Saviour,  Lamb  of  God 

"•HAT  doleful  night  before  his  death 

The  bleft  memorials  of  thy  grief 
e  dev'l  can  felf-denial  ufe 


171 

a4 

ai5 

75 

aii 

7* 

ao8 

67 

a©3 

6* 

165 

18 

282 

36 

199 

5* 

»57 

7 

185 

39 

ai7 

80 

163 

zx 

156 

5 

181 

3S 

z6x 

13 

30j 

64 

»59 

9 

417 

79 

167 

at 

i6x 

1% 

19* 

49 

aia 

73 

183 

37 

30* 

60 

178 

S1 

196 

SI 

189 

45 

I6» 

U 

I64 

17 

»57 

6 

197 

54 

INDEX. 

The  fear  of  the Lord 

rftuschofe  »6fi 

hand  cf  God  168 

aver,  a  feafl  ::as  made  153 

•    irthe  Lord  17 l 

The  pra  fe  or  Chrift  ye  Chtiftians  fjund  192 

puits  ofthe  juft  l89 

The  tender  mercies  of  the  Lord  l&3 

is  the  day  the  Lord  has  made  154 

■T  h  y  m  e  r cy  >  Lord ,  w  e  p  r at  fe  *  7  * 

VAIN  man  thy  fond  purftrits  forbear  187 

Vain  man  to  boaft  forbear  aoo 

UpRISING  from  the  darkfome  tomb  180 

WE  fing  thy  praife,  exalted  Lamb  co6 

Whatcreatures  bei  1^6 

What  various  ways  do  men  invent  »oi 

When  fi'diy  paffions  or  ur.jnft  199 

When  Tefus  undertook  164 

When  pir/ngfickncfs  v.- He?  the  frame  185 

When  through  the  defait  vaft  ■  160 

Whentieav'nly  holls  their  anthems  ling  1 75 

YE  bo!  ^l,'s  l88 

Ye  Chriftiahs,  hear  the  joyful  news  193 

Ye  fens  of  men  Jthe  warniftas  take  1  86 

ye  fouls  that  trua  in  Chrift  rejoice  198 

ZrfE.iL  exurrjuidi'd  to  a  fpark  a'©* 


FINIS. 


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